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September 1958

AA Around the World

MICK KNOCKED ON THE DOOR - News, comments and letters from and about AA's worldwide outposts and centers--gleaned from letters to the Grapevine and the General Service Office, and from the "AA exchange Bulletin," published monthly by GSO

LAST SEPTEMBER my wife and I were living in a flat down by the sea in Thorncliffe, seven miles northeast of Brisbane. We are both English and met for the first time on the boat coming out to Australia three years ago, marrying a year later. About three weeks after we'd moved in, one Monday evening came a knock on my front door. A man was standing there with his small daughter Fay, aged eight. "Are you Owen? My name's Mick. The Central Office gave me your address. I live almost opposite."

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