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Earning a Dream

March 2024 | Spanish-Speaking AA Members
A single mom recalls how she followed her sponsor’s suggestion to reach some financial security

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

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

Trust

December 2022 | Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
As an active alcoholic, I had been unable to quit drinking for years and years. I tried over and over, but could not find a way to free myself. I was like the frenzied wren.

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

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.”

Clearer than ever

January 2020 | Spiritual Awakenings
A private investigator discovers that faith, not sight, would lead him out of the dark

Closing argument

November 2019 | Grapevine Classics
Facing five years in jail, a sober dad stands before a judge and gets something much longer-lasting

Demolished

July 2019 | The Prison Issue
This driller and blaster always felt different. But the thing that made her the same was her drinking

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