Super Meeting

FOR THIS alcoholic, the first AA International Convention was like the first AA meeting, approached with a mixture of curiosity and foreboding. I'm not a joiner, I told myself; I'll feel out of place in that crowd. (According to what I've heard at meetings, about ninety percent of the other people who join AA aren't joiners, either.) At the 1975 Convention, in Denver, I encountered the same happy--if overwhelming--surprise that I enjoyed on first walking into my home group.