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Dear Grapevine, February 2001

I have been sober for two months. I just got out of juvenile detention. I am fourteen and have been drinking for five years.

No, I am not lying. My family life permitted me to do such things. I was put in juvenile detention after I was arrested for escaping from a treatment center. Now I am in a long-term treatment house for teenage girls. It’s a very good place.

I am just writing to say that young people are serious about quitting. I have been around a lot of runaways who were attempting to quit but couldn’t without some sort of positive motivation like I have found in AA. I think that you would be able to reach out to younger people nationwide with a teen Grapevine and/or youth oriented AA groups. It would be inspiration for people who someday will be either drunks or honest, trustworthy citizens who can make America proud.

MANDIE W.

BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON