November 1999
After Twenty-nine Years
The author's story "Women Suffer Too" was the first woman's story in the Big Book. - From the July 1968 Grapevine
Today, as in April 1939 when I attended my first meeting, the Twelve Steps are to me the heart of the AA program. By the time I gathered up courage to attend a meeting, I had read the Big Book three times. And I had studied several hundred times the pages containing the Twelve Steps and the suggestions on how to use then. They didn't seem easy to me--they didn't even seem simple, in spite of their clarity of language. But I was eager to go to work on all of them, for they seemed to me the key to that which I so desperately needed: assurance that I would be able to stay away from drinking.
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