The Jumping Off Place

There is a chapter in the Big Book titled "A Vision for You." A paragraph in that chapter talks about the jumping-off place. I reached that place one night in a bar after hours. I was twenty years old, and I had three children, a recent hysterectomy, and was on my third failing relationship. I also had done some jail time for a drunken escapade and was on the run from a violent ex-husband.