Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad

I came out of the psychopathic ward of Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, on August 18, 1943, on my 55th birthday. There I ended the binge that was to end all binges--it lasted eleven months. The last nine weeks of it, I was alone in our country home in Putnam County, where I had spent the previous nine summers, some of the time fairly sober, some awfully drunk.