Buried Treasure

YEARS AGO, I had bought a Big Book at a garage sale to read up on an organization my grandfather became a part of and loved. I was not ready then to stop drinking. I later gave it away, barely reading it, in a box of books to my aunt. In 1976, I joined AA. A year later, after I disclosed my AA membership to this same aunt, she began attending AA and offered that same "old" Big Book to me, knowing it would mean more now that I was in the program.