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My First AA Experience

She attended her first meeting drunk and the hand of AA did not reach out to her. Sober ten years later, she remembers with resentment—and forgivness.

Recently I had an experience at my usual Friday night AA meeting that opened my eyes to the beauty of sober thinking and the freedom that comes when you experience emotional pain in a healthy way…something I once drank into oblivion to avoid altogether.

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