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August 1971

Once Over Lightly

Sense and nonsense on the road to recovery

OUR OWN Paula C., managing editoress and resident den mother for the Grapevine, brings us the true story of a non-AA lady who has given up trying to explain the wonders of AA to other earth people. Returning from the impressive Toronto International Convention in 1965, she showed a friend a copy of the souvenir booklet, "AA 30," and was floored when the friend, leafing through it, studied one photograph and said, "I'm sorry, my dear, but it's just as I've always thought. They do have such weak faces!"

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