That 'Formal' Step Five

IN MY FIRST weeks of sobriety, I read through the Twelve Steps quickly and decided that anyone with half a wit could follow those simple suggestions without any trouble. But on approaching the Fifth Step, I began to have second thoughts. I could never tell another person some of the things I had done while I was drinking. If these newfound friends in AA really knew me, they would have nothing to do with me. So I'd just keep my mouth shut about the horrors of my past, I decided, and fake it.