Stepping Back Into AA
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Stepping Back Into AA

Going through—rather than running away---makes all the difference

I’ve had two “stints” in AA. The first one started in the fall of 1985 and ended when I picked up a drink in early 2001. Between then and May 2004, I learned a hard lesson about the progressive nature of the disease. I was blessed to make it back with a miraculously low amount of suffering but, as they say, beaten by alcohol into a state of reasonableness.

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