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Estranged

April 2021 | Fun in Sobriety
Drinking buddies for 20 years, she and her sister were best friends. That is, until one of them sobered up

To Value You More

April 2021 | Fun in Sobriety
One day in her Step study group, an oldtimer discovers something brand-new about Step Four. Proof that the learning and growing never stops

Estranged

Magazine Issue April 2021 | Topics Gratitude Personal Stories Relationships

A Night of Normal Drinking

January 2020 | Spiritual Awakenings
Just in case he ever forgets, a member recalls what an evening out was actually like

Last call

January 2020 | Spiritual Awakenings
It was 1985. She took out a dime and stared at her shot glass. Then she walked over to the phone and saved her life

Coming To and Waking Up

June 2011
Coming to amidst a shattered whiskey bottle on the bathroom floor on his 31st birthday was the beginning of the end

A Tree, A Car, A Man ... and God

June 2011
His sober journey began one night behind the wheel of a car at the end of the road

The Moon in Gemini

June 2011
She came to one night lying face down on the ground and knew that something had to change

"Don't Do It, Mom, He's Not Worth It!"

June 2011
An incident of domestic violence and a daughter's rejection was the spark he needed to get sober

Stories My Father Told Me

June 2011
After a lifetime of drinking, a man looks back at the lessons his father tried to teach him about alcoholism

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