Money Getting Low

Briefly, why am I an A.A.? There is but one answer. After suffering the tortures of the damned and enduring the penalties which every alcoholic must pay, I have probed my soul to its innermost and with the help of the Supreme Being, I have come out of the bewildered chaos to understand fully that there is no road back but that very difficult route, which sometimes tries our determination severely but which is the only way in the end--the direct route to self confidence and respect--total abstinence.