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FOREWORD

The stories in the first edition of this book originally appeared in the A.A. Grapevine, A.A.’s international monthly magazine. In this second edition we’ve updated the book by adding new stories – some from the A.A. Grapevine and others sent directly to us from members. In this book inmates tell these personal stories of the miracle of recovery. Each found freedom and hope from alcoholism’s devastating disease through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. These A.A.s share their experience with you in the hope you will identify with their problem, and that you gain the strength through the Twelve Steps, fellowship and tools of the A.A. program to join them on the road to recovery—physically, mentally and spiritually—from alcoholism. For more about A.A., you can read the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, our basic text where you will find our program of recovery.

Perhaps our co-founder described this miracle best:

“I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out. I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities. There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome among us.”

Co-founder Bill W.

In “Bill’s Story”

Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 15