My Name Is Annabelle

EVEN now, a few years later, I remember the words "cunning, baffling, powerful." Every time I walked into the clubroom, still sick and in a fog, one AA member looked at me and repeated these three words. Nothing made sense to me then; I was going through too much--troubles of all kinds. Why? It was my first year on the program and I needed so desperately never to take another drink, yet it took me so long to become interested and to want what everyone else had--sobriety. Then suddenly I was not just on the program, I was in it. Things began to get better.