The Bright Spot
October 2004
A teenager talks about her struggles with alcoholism, AA, and not drinking on her 21st birthday
Busted by the AA Police
October 2004
She was holding the biggest bottle of vodka she could find and the cops told her to drop it
At Last No Longer Apart
November 1999
The author of "Stars Don't Fall" reported on the vital experience--some of it rough going--of the second half of her quarter century of sobriety. - From the November 1967 Grapevine
Sober for Thirty Years
November 1999
One of the earliest members of the first New York AA group; he was also its first "self-proclaimed atheist." - From the May 1968 Grapevine
After Twenty-nine Years
November 1999
The author's story "Women Suffer Too" was the first woman's story in the Big Book. - From the July 1968 Grapevine
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