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1  The Best of The Grapevine, Volume 1 AA Preamble Foreword CHAPTER ONE: That We May Solve Our Common Problem You Don’t Know What Lonesome Is! Slips and Human Nature Anybody Seen My Dragon? The Fear of Feeling Rejected Ever Been on a Dry Drunk? Those Depressions–Make Them Work for Good! Just Keep On Going Self-Pity Can Kill The Green Demon Complacency—the Enemy Within Tradition One Tradition Three Caught In Hateland CHAPTER TWO: Stay Sober and Help Other Alcoholics Not Today, Thanks On Cultivating Tolerance Why Don’t We Talk About Sex? Responsibility Is the Name of the Game Coping with Unemployment The Impossible Dream Children Don’t Hide In AA Tradition Five Tradition Eleven Sponsor Your Doctor Are You Powerless Over Money? The Heart Attack Charming Is the Word for Alcoholics CHAPTER THREE: Men and Women Who Share You and I Need Each Other Leadership in AA: Ever a Vital Need It’s What Happened to Me Tradition Two The Whisper of Humility Tradition Four Real Rotation—or “Back Seat” Indispensables? How Group Conscious Are You? Tradition Seven Beginnings in Beirut CHAPTER FOUR: Experience, Strength, and Hope The Steps Are the Program When the Big “I” Becomes Nobody Truth Action and More Action The Big Book: One-Shot Deal or Constant Companion? Promises, Promises What About This 24-Hour Plan? A Selfish Program? How AA Works CHAPTER FIVE: Not Allied With Any Sect or Denomination The Bill W.–Carl Jung Letters After the Fall Seeking Through Meditation A Gift That Surpasses Understanding Prayer A Slob’s Guide to Spiritual Growth Why God Says No Tradition Twelve And Then an Eskimo Came Over the Hill What Is Acceptance? CHAPTER SIX: Neither Endorses Nor Opposes Any Causes The Shape of Things to Come AA Is Getting Too Organized! Our Primary Purpose and the Special-Purpose Group The Washingtonians Are We Letting Others Do Our Work? Those “Goof Balls” As Different as We Choose to Be Back to Basics Tradition Ten Over 40 Billion Problems Served Is Public Controversy Ever Justified? CHAPTER SEVEN: Alcoholics Anonymous Is a Fellowship Twelve Suggested Points for AA Tradition Dr. Bob: The Man and the Physician Bill’s Wife Remembers When “Let’s Keep It Simple…” But How? Tradition Six Services Make AA Tick Tradition Eight Tradition Nine Why Alcoholics Anonymous Is Anonymous The Preamble (a brief history) Twelve Steps Twelve Traditions About AA and AA Grapevine

2  The Best of The Grapevine, Volume 2 AA Preamble Foreword CHAPTER ONE: That We May Solve Our Common Problem Then I Saw Charlie Remembering a Girl—Defeated Except Once The Minister Says the Password The Kid Who Came In from the Cold Without a Secret High I’m Unique—But I Want to Belong Rock ‘n Roll Sobriety My Name Is Bertha… Condemned to Live an Underground Life The Stranger I Want to Belong The Great Equalizer CHAPTER TWO: Stay Sober and Help Other Alcoholics Unmanageable Lives Martian Report on the Curious Cult of “Alcohol” Drinkers Eager Beaver Divided I Stand The Answers Will Come Get a Fresh Start Did Anonymity Help Kill Jim? Boy Lying in the Grass The Shrivelage Principle Learning to Handle Sobriety CHAPTER THREE: Men and Women Who Share Will We Squander Our Inheritance? Leaders in Sober Living The Stranger I Don’t Go to Meetings Anymore People Are Like People Passing the Basket…or Passing the Buck? All This Reading at AA Meetings…? Of Cakes and Ale No Price Tag on Benefits What AA Meetings Taught a Non-AA Counselor CHAPTER FOUR: Experience, Strength, and Hope Those Twelve Steps as I Understand Them First Step Second Step Third Step Fourth Step The Twelve Steps Revisited—Step Five Sixth Step Seventh Step 8½ Editorial: on the Ninth Step “When We Were Wrong” Eleventh Step Twelfth Step CHAPTER FIVE: Not Allied with Any Sect or Denomination Paradox of Power No Trumpets Blew So That’s a Spiritual Experience! Breakthrough Traffic Goes Both Ways Closet Atheist God Is Not Yourself CHAPTER SIX: Neither Endorses Nor Opposes Any Causes We Could Blow the Whole Thing “Let the Bum Find Us” Are We Forgetting Twelfth Step Calls? Exclusive—or More Inclusive? Opportunity Knocks AAs Should Be Honest About Sex Problems So You Want a “Celebrity” Speaker? Generalizations Can Be Dangerous Another Vision for You CHAPTER SEVEN: Alcoholics Anonymous Is a Fellowship The Fundamentals—In Retrospect People and Principles Because One Man Was Lonely It Might Have Been the Time… Was My Leg Being Pulled? Service Is the Reason Give My Regards to New York Gifts from the Past Guardian of AA—Our General Service Conference Twelve Steps Twelve Traditions About AA and AA Grapevine

3  The Best of The Grapevine, Volume 3 AA Preamble Foreword ONE: Stories More Precious Than Life The Stranger A Long Way Down He Gave Me the Shirt Off His Back My Name Is John and I’m an Alcoholic Drunk and Disorderly TWO: AA Around the World Making Manuel Drink People, Places, and Things One in a Billion A Long Way from Akron A Healthy Appetite for Beer Grupa Una THREE: The Home Group In the Grip of the Group A Nude Awakening Who’s Sitting Next to You? Serenidad in Central Square A Near Fatality on the Information Superhighway Kids R Us Together We Can FOUR: Overcoming Adversity How to Make a Wheelchair Fly No Longer Alone Another Hand to Help Me Along Breaker, Breaker When Outside Issues Creep In You Mean You’re Still Married? Soledad’s Search The Care and Feeding of Resentments Flight Pattern FIVE: Interviews Spellbound by AA: An Interview With Nell Wing An Interview With the Author of “Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict” An Interview With the Author of “Physician, Heal Thyself!” An Interview With The Author of “The Independent Blonde” SIX: Is AA Changing? Surrender—Not Self-Improvement Monkey See, Monkey Do Is There a Grapevine in Your Future? Rules of Thumb AA Is Not Group Therapy Too Young? SEVEN: The Twelve Steps Step One: Admitting Powerlessness Step Two: Cold Sober Step Three: A Program of Action Step Four: We Set Them on Paper Step Five: Building an Arch Step Six: The Choice Step Seven: The Pain Was Lifted Step Eight: The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten Step Nine: A Benchmark in Sobriety Step Ten: How to Lose 100 Ugly Pounds Step Eleven: Trusting the Silence Step Twelve: In My Native Tongue EIGHT: The Twelve Traditions The Best of an Awkward Situation The Other Side of Self-Support Service: A Framework for the Future Out of the Hat The Costume and the Mask Indelible Humility The Washingtonians—Where Are They Now? NINE: Special Features Experience, Strength, and Hope—a Visit to the Soviet Union AA: How Can We Help You? Coming of Age Corporate Poverty TEN: Old-Timers Corner Love Confessions of a Big Book Thumper Dropout Ph. Drunk Learning to Fly Mended by AA Life Is Meant to Be Lived Twelve Steps Twelve Traditions About AA and AA Grapevine

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