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January 1953

This I Believe

A CASE HISTORY OF PROGRESS FROM DILEMMA

FROM the beginning of my time in AA, I had been hearing of alcoholism as a disease. For the first several years all this was wasted on me. I suppose at the time I wasn't ready to handle it. Even my being an alcoholic, as distinguished from just a no-good drunk, was a new one on me. That word "distinguished" has a flattering sound; so I'll leave it in.

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