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2. AA In A Nutshell (by Anonymous)
– Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of ex-drunks whose only qualification for membership is that we finally realized that we couldn’t hold our liquor and wanted to stop trying to impossibly learn how to hold it successfully. It has no rules, dues, or fees, nor anything else that any sensible organization seems to require.
60. Bill’s Wife Remembers When He and She and the First A. A.s Were Very Young (by Bill W.’s wife, Lois Wilson)
As the wife of an early A.A., some of our experiences and my reactions to my husband’s changed life may be interesting to other wives. Bill was an alcoholic, I believe, from the first drink he ever took, just a few months before our marriage. From then on, for seventeen years, I did everything I could think of to keep him away from liquor.
December
1944
73. Points of View: Arkansas Style (by Bud G.)
Arkansas — Arkansas “Moon” brings on a peculiar kind of mean insanity, fearsome in its throes even to our horny-toed hillsmen. Four of our first seven A.A.s had to be lassoed and hauled out of caves where they had been living with panthers and bears. Two of the other three were easily taken: our local founder dug them up out of the sod–incorrectly diagnosed. The founder himself was a screwball trumpet player from one of the state’s oldest, most revered families–fundamentally incapable.
January
1945
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