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March 1970

The Glass They Couldn't See

I MADE my first contact with AA in the United States, and had a margin of success, but I had to come to Rome, where the wine flows as freely as the water in the fountains, to get really sober. I say this though I hadn't had a drink for about three years when I landed in the Wicked City. It was here, among the ancient ruins of palaces and temples and the modern ruins of human beings, that I remembered something from my past which helped me and just might help you. It was "the glass they couldn't see."

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