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July 1979

Bus Ride to Sobriety

A happy example of how it works: one alcoholic talking to another

ABOUT FOUR months ago, I was traveling by bus to Connecticut. Just seconds before departure, a young man struggled onto the bus. He passed my seat and sat with a passenger a few rows back, proclaiming immediately that he was an alcoholic, that he had been drinking for six days and couldn't stop, that he was fearful of the reaction of his family.

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