The Best Decision I Ever Made
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The Best Decision I Ever Made

After a very rocky start in sobriety, three crosstown buses changed her life

It was the summer of 1983 and I had been sober for nearly three years. I

thought I knew everything about AA -- I had read all the books and would quote them at

people in meetings. I had taken my friends’ advice and stayed out of relationships for a year – after figuring out why they recommended that by getting in and out of a few bad ones. I had been in college but was on summer break. For the first time since I had gotten sober, I wasn’t in school and I didn’t have a job. I was at loose ends.

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