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Always Hope

July 2023 | Annual Prison Issue
An oldtimer shares some things he’s learned to keep his head above water on the long, sober swim

Finding Forgiveness

July 2023 | Annual Prison Issue
For many years he held a resentment toward his father. Thanks to AA, this day he was ready to let it go

Always Hope

Magazine Issue July 2023 | Topics Oldtimers Emotional Sobriety Homegroup/Meetings

Finding Forgiveness

Magazine Issue July 2023 | Topics Making Amends Family Personal Stories Spirituality

Experience, Strength and Hope

July 2018
He was such a nice guy—why did everyone abandon him? Maybe it was that bottle that contained self-pity as well as vodka

Father and Son

July 2018
Their sobriety date is six week apart. They’ve shared the same joy, pain and love as their lives opened up in sobriety

Speaking of humility

July 2018
What? After weeks of research and rehearsal for his big talk about Step Seven they chose a different speaker?

The big shot

July 2018
He got fired, his wife just had a baby and he was in big legal trouble. Boy, did he need a drink

All the proof I needed

September 2016

No way out

September 2016
He escaped a troubled childhood by joining the army. But he couldn’t escape the bottle

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