December 1964
Christmas Illumination
There was no tree to trim. Was the bottle the answer or could AA suggest another approach?
THE Holiday Season, Year 1959, was to be an important first for me on two counts: the first homeless holiday in my entire life--and the first drinkless holiday since adulthood. I had been trying to live the AA program since May of that year and I already felt comfortably cured of any compulsion to reach for the cup that cheers. My emotional sobriety, however, was still on shaky legs. And my new-found AA friends must have sensed this; they had cautioned me to be on guard. That first Christmas can be dangerous, they said.
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