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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

The Slippery Slope

June 2018
He was a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde drinker all his life—respectable, but with a hidden “inventory” of booze

Dear Grapevine

June 2018

Not a river in Egypt

June 2018
Even in sobriety, denial ruled his life. But Step Six and a cool Higher Power helped him begin to accept reality and lift his head out of the sand

In a safe place

June 2018
While working in a refugee camp, a member tells how she stays sane, sober and most of all, grateful

PO Box 1980

October 1984
This God I didn't believe in

PO Box 1980

October 1984
Exactly what I needed

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