A family affair

This is the story of my family and what AA has done for us. This is a sober story. Suffice it to say we all belong. It starts with my father: I was almost 5 the first time he quit drinking. My mother had threatened to leave him before, but this time she had packed our bags. There were four of us kids and another on the way. My mother would have had no choice but to go on welfare and somehow survive with us.