Reading, 'Riting and Recovery

WHEN I first came into AA, I was a very sick man, with hallucinations and echoes of dt's. After three months of traveling some seventy miles to a nearby city twice a week, seeking some serenity, four other alcoholics and I formed a small group in my hometown. We jumped into Twelfth Step work too soon, but how else does a new group get started? Early in the formation of this group, we ran into man's old enemy--illiteracy.