June 2018
Felt like home
How the warm welcome at a shelter meeting helped her take off a “backpack” of fear and shame
I had never been to a homeless shelter before, but the first AA meeting of the day near me was held there at 7:30 a.m. I was shaking, crying and sweating as I drove my car across the bridge to go there. A friend of mine who knew about AA (I knew nothing) had encouraged me to try the program. I wasn’t convinced, but after planning my suicide and being too afraid to carry it out, I was desperate.
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