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Party Guy

January 2024 | Emotional Sobriety
Many nights after the bar had closed, he’d still be downing whiskey shots. Oh yeah...the wife and kids

Knock Knock Who’s There?

July 2023 | Annual Prison Issue
He had nurtured this resentment about Jack for years. Now it was time to make face-to- face amends. He was ready

Not by accident

February 2023 | Making Amends
How do you clear up the past when you’ve blamed yourself for years for someone’s death?

Sometimes Quickly Sometimes Slowly

September 2022 | Young & Sober
With surrender and action, the Ninth Step Promises came true. But it’s a process, she says. You can’t just flip a switch

A tough amend

September 2021 | Young & Sober!
How would he ever make amends to the man he had knifed in the back? In AA, we find a way

A Mom’s Return

July 2021 | The Annual Prison Issue
Through living amends, a grateful sober mother comes full circle with the children she once abandoned for booze

Sealed & Delivered

March 2021 | Making Amends
Write a letter to everyone she owed? How would she ever pay them back? Time for a little faith

260 Breakfasts

March 2021 | Making Amends
A trip to an old boss to make things right led to a long, wonderful friendship he never expected

Back In Court

April 2020 | Home Group
She started calling out names. I waited and waited and soon I was the only person left. “Mr. F,” the judge said, looking right at me. “I won’t be putting you in jail today.”

A very strange amend

February 2017

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