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Группа авторов. Voices of Long-Term Sobriety
VOICES OF LONG-TERM. SOBRIETY
VOICES OF LONG-TERM. SOBRIETY
AA Preamble
Contents
A Note To Our Readers
SECTION ONE. The Jumping-Off Place
A Power Greater Than Compulsion
Absolutely Richard
From Handcuffs to Hope
The Perfect Curve
A Real War Story
From Rags to Riches
SECTION TWO. Living History
Sober for Thirty Years
The Seven-Day Test
Practice These Principles
From Wagon Trains to Jets
It Works for Me
The Fishing Guide, the Bartender, and Me
A Place of Either/Or
How AA Came to Geneva, Nebraska
SECTION THREE. A Journey Not A Destination
The Quest for Spirituality
Taking Gratitude for Granted
The Bottom of the Glass
Weeding out the Crabgrass
What AA Means to Me
You Can Always Tell Another Alcoholic
A Seat, A Cup of Coffee, and Lots of Love
Gratitude
Old-Timers in the Making
SECTION FOUR. The Challenge Of Change
Facing the Future Without the Froth
Freedom from Alcohol
Portals of the Program
The Same Chance I Had
… And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
Anything and Everything Except Sobriety
Who’s The Boss?
SECTION FIVE. Interviews
A Living Big Book
The Real Thing
Dateline, Alaska
Reflections On 28 Years of Experience at Our General Service Office
A Fine Old Tree
SECTION SIX. Making It New
Taking the Time to Listen
An Old-Timer’s Checklist
Why I Keep Coming Back
Online and Active
A New Way of Looking at Life
Reciprocal Strength
THE LAST WORD. Words of Wisdom
Twelve Steps
Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous
AA Grapevine
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Old-Timers' Stories
From AA Grapevine
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June 1994
I first learned about AA in Ohio in August 1938. I had several relapses until my first day of lasting sobriety—Armistice Day, November 11, 1944. I’m very grateful for all that I’ve achieved in AA: recovery, sobriety, contentment, and the opportunity to share all that I was so generously given. But I will always remember those helpless and hopeless drinking times and early treatment procedures: undergoing the aversion cure, being locked up with mental patients, enduring iced sheets and other shock treatments, withstanding physical beatings in a jail bullpen and an Army guardhouse. And I remember the anguish in the faces of loved ones when it seemed that their prayers for my recovery had failed.
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