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Sammy

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
A transgender alcoholic shares about feeling all alone, until one day it was no longer true

Feeling Safe to Share

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
Doing the Steps, learning to set boundaries and working with others helped her connect with life again

Remembering to Welcome All

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
The Steps help him look at his painful past and amend the way he treats others

Loving Myself

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
A lesbian member shares about acceptance, tolerance, relationships, God and staying sober in AA since 1979

Sentenced: A Good Life

August 2020 | LGBTQ+
An old-timer remembers the judge in the 1960s who sent him to Ed, who cracked open the gate to freedom

I Still Sit up Front, I Still Raise my Hand

March 2012
After 20 years, this alcoholic does not have all the answers

Chance Encounter

March 2012
A kind message from a customer in the grocery store turned his AA program around

Hanging with the Girls

March 2012
She learned how to make and keep friends in AA

Starting at Zero

March 2012
It took a long time of being in AA before he could take the First Step

Lifting the Burden of Shame

March 2002

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