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

Some time ago a non-alcoholic who attended one of our meetings with a member of her family, said to me, "I don't see how you can all be so jolly, because the whole thing seems like a nightmare to me." (This is the sort of outsider remark which calls for all my newfound tolerance.) But in thinking this over, it seems to me, as an alcoholic and A.A., that this statement is so far from right, as to be a complete mis-statement. Let me tell you why, as I feel deeply about this.