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November 1979

So Changed a Life

The author, whose story "Fear of Fear" appears in both the second and third editions of Alcoholics Anonymous, recently celebrated with her husband their thirtieth AA anniversary. - From the September 1968 Grapevine

What a change in our lives since that day eighteen years ago when George and I came into AA! We were two spiritually, mentally, and physically beaten people. Our children were ashamed of us; our family did not want any part of us. Our drinking friends (the only ones we had) were almost as far gone as we were, so we were two lost lambs--more like goats, I would say. We were afraid of asking anyone for help (if we even knew we needed help), fed up with each other, ready to call the whole thing off, without the strength to know where to look for help.

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