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CHAPTER ONE

OCTOBER 1978

LAUGHING AT OURSELVES

Recognizing the power of humor in recovery

Sometimes there’s nothing to do but laugh. We laugh about what we did while drinking, we laugh about our early mistakes and the pain of getting sober, and we laugh at ourselves even now. When one AA accidentally brings a cake with rum in it to her anniversary meeting (“Cake with Punch”), and another almost sets his car on fire while discussing the Steps with his sponsor (“Steps on Fire”), what else could they do but throw out the cake, put out the fire, laugh and move on?

“I learned to laugh again in AA, and when I'm laughing, the whole world seems to smile at me,” writes the author of “If You Feel Good, You're Not Normal.” “The laughter in AA attracted me from the very beginning.”

Laughter may not be the first key to getting sober, but laughing at our mistakes is just another way we begin to accept ourselves as human.