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November 1999

At Last No Longer Apart

The author of "Stars Don't Fall" reported on the vital experience--some of it rough going--of the second half of her quarter century of sobriety. - From the November 1967 Grapevine

When they told me my story would appear in the "high-bottom" section of the last edition of the Big Book--the section labeled "They Stopped in Time"--I was hurt. Had I not suffered more than anyone else? Was I not a rag, a bone, a hank of hair, when I finally came staggering through the door of the old clubhouse at 324-1/2 West Twenty-fourth Street? How could they say that I had had an easy time of it?

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