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May 1985

The Words Didn't Matter

After a shattering loss, the healing love of AA friends brought peace

FOR SEVERAL days, some years ago, I was a suffering alcoholic though I was sober in AA, and had been for a good many years. At no time during this period did I desire to drink or have any thought of drinking. Yet I was suffering acutely, and had been since a telephone call told me that a cousin was in the hospital, near death.

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