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All It Takes Is One
Finding within herself the “tiny key of willingness,” a woman who had drifted away from the program discovers that she, too, can carry the message
For most of my first six years in AA I did not carry the message—I let the message carry me. I was aglow with sobriety. Then, for some reason, I drifted away from AA. I found out later that I drifted away because I was not working all the Steps, specifically the 12th Step. I was doing the same thing in sobriety that I had always done in active drinking…taking, taking, taking! When the hard stuff hit—when my ten-year relationship ended, when my sponsor died, when my brother died of an overdose—I was not prepared. I blamed all those things for why I turned my back on AA.
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