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Early Shaky Days

Achieving sobriety with the help of long-remembered words of other alcoholics, he discovered he was no longer “terminally unique”

What was it that kept me sober in those early shaky days of sobriety? It was the early 1990’s in Sydney Australia when I found myself sitting in a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. I was incredibly frightened, but so desperate to change my life that I had no choice but to force myself to walk through those doors. However, a warm handshake with an assurance from an AA member that I would be all right was the perfect greeting I received as I entered.

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