Sisters in Sobriety

I am a banana. This means that I am yellow on the outside and white on the inside. I was born in South Korea and came to this country in 1964; I was adopted by white, middle-class Americans and raised with their values. The school I attended was primarily white. In our neighborhood, there was one African-American family, one Japanese family--and me. When I came into AA, I found a million and one reasons to rationalize why I couldn't learn from other AA members: this one was a man, this one was black, that one was white, that one was straight, and so on.