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July 1959

AA Around the World

AA Needed in South African Prisons - 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 by the General Service

My name is John and I am an alcoholic. I have been on the program a very short while as I have only just been released from prison where AA is not known. On my release I just went back to drinking and hit rock bottom in a very short while but thanks to a group up our way I found myself and sobriety once again. I might add that I had been in contact with AA on two previous occasions but never had faith in it. I suppose that was because I did not want to stop drinking. Today with the help of a Power greater than myself and an honest desire to stop drinking I have at last found a contented sobriety.

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