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From Fear to Freedom

Her panic attacks were so profound she couldn’t even speak at meetings. Until she learned that fear itself can be a gift of sobriety

My sister had been discharged from a treatment center and asked me to go to her first AA meeting with her. Of course, I would go—I love my sister. That was in January 1988. I didn’t know that day would become my own AA birthday. You see, my sister never returned to AA. But I have never stopped going.

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