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September 2019 | Young & Sober
How the author became a member of a PI committee—and how service enriches her life

A majestic night

August 2019 | African-American Alcoholics in AA
What was supposed to be just a ride home from a meeting turned out to be a show of a lifetime

Came to Believe

June 2019 | Letting Go of Resentments
A former inmate’s eloquent plea for help and service to America’s prisons

Service in A Battered Suitcase

February 2019 | Stories by Our Longtime Members
A clear-eyed look at the beauty (and difficulty) of service

Rest in Peace

December 2018 | Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
A dying man spreads the message of AA in an Ontario snowstorm—and the person who receives it continues the cycle of love and service

Thanks, I See the Light

November 2018
He’d quit drinking before, without a problem. Why not now?

Relief Is Not Release

July 2018
He’d been sober a long time, but a glass of whiskey nearly found its way into his hand. It was because he wasn’t fully living the program

Seven Years

October 2017
Looking back, he remembers the moment he walked down the steps to the basement meeting room—and began his life anew

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