A Fresh Life In AA

I got sober in Ottawa in 1991 and I came out as a gay woman to myself, to my family, and to my friends in 1992. I felt a great deal of relief from both of these revelations in my life. I finally had an alternative to my own plan for handling life which was to ‘drown all my sorrows’ in alcohol whenever possible, which happened to be on a daily basis. And, I finally understood why I had never been ‘boy crazy’ in high school and why I had never had sex sober. I was sure that other people would be as happy as I was to have these mysteries of life finally solved.