Golden Years

WE HAVE perhaps one of the smallest AA groups in our worldwide Fellowship. For almost a year now, four loyal members have gathered each week for our Wednesday-night meeting. With new groups being formed and all growing in numbers constantly, this situation is rather unusual, especially since there is a need for our particular type of group. We call ourselves the Golden Years and are a senior-citizens group, a category that is showing ever-increasing symptoms of our disease, alcoholism. As an oldster myself, with an inglorious career of some fifty years of battling the bottle, I think I know why more of my contemporaries do not seek aid for their drinking problem.