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March 1989

A Spoke in the Wheel

One Tuesday night a lonely confused woman named "Sara" walks through the doors of Alcoholics Anonymous. Sara feels alienated and depressed, feelings she has had most of her life. She is completely demoralized and knows she will never be accepted or feel loved by anyone again. But through all this despair she doesn't want to die. So cautiously she slips in and sits in the far right chair in the very back row. She doesn't raise her hand as a newcomer because she is too paranoid. She is too afraid they will see her and know and then she will be rejected one more time. So every Tuesday night she comes back and quietly sneaks into that chair in the back row because she doesn't want to die and she has no place else to go.

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