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In the story “Beyond ‘I’m Sorry’,” when one sponsor suggests to an AA that he make amends to a client he’d harmed in the past by offering his services free of charge, his sponsee responds, “Uhhh … I’ll have to think about that.” But when the sponsee does follow his sponsor’s suggestion, he gets positive results and knows it was what he needed to do. In “My Good Sponsor,” a struggling newbie laughs when his sponsor suggests he make coffee. “A year or two later, after more experimenting and more benders, I made the coffee! I did not know it then, but I was on my way,” the author writes.

The stories in this chapter are about sponsees following direction from their sponsors—some willingly, some not so willingly—and seeing the results.