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

It will be a year in November since I read the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, and attended my first A.A. meeting. Although I am only 39, drinking has been a problem to me for over 20 years. Because of several unhappy incidents in my childhood, by the time I was in high school I had a full fledged inferiority complex. I discovered this vanished into thin air after a few drinks. As the years went on, my drinking progressed until I was using alcohol as the proverbial crutch--as an escape from any and everything of an unpleasant nature that I had to face. Like all alcoholics, I had caused much unhappiness to myself, my husband and little girl. Last year I had reached the point where I would walk the floor at night unable to sleep, frightened at the kind of person I had become and at what our future held. I knew I could not stop drinking. Then a neighbor who was an A.A. gave me the book to read and I attended my first meeting. Here was the answer.