AA Big Book Stories Edition – 2
40. Free From Bondage
Young when she joined, this A.A. believes her seri- ous drinking was the result of even deeper defects. She here tells how she was set free. THE MENTAL TWISTS that led up to my drinking began many years before I
39. He Who Loses His Wife
An ambitious playwright, his brains got so far ahead of his emotions that he collapsed into suicidal drinking. To learn to live, he nearly died. I REMEMBER the day when I decided to drink myself to death quietly, without bothering
38. The Independent Blonde
The lady was blonde, self-supporting, and self-suffi- cient. Then she began slamming doors, kicking shins, and waking up in psychopathic wards. At last the day came when all this changed. I HAVE TO TELL you a little of the way
37. The Career Officer
A British officer, this Irishman—that is, until brandy “retired” him. But this proved only a temporary set- back. He survived to become a mainstay of A.A. in Eire. I AM AN Irishman and I was forty-nine when I joined A.A.
36. Annie The Cop Fighter
For thirty-five years she fought God, man, and the police force to keep on being what she wanted to be—a drunk. But a telephone call from a gin mill where she was celebrating Mother’s Day brought in the nosey A.A.’s
35. Desperation Drinking
He was drinking to hold on to his job, to hold on to his wife, to hold on to his sanity. Finally he was drinking to keep away those little men and those strange voices, and the organ music that
34. There’s Nothing The Matter With Me
That’s what the man said as he hocked his shoes for the price of two bottles of Sneaky Pete. He drank bayzo, canned heat, and shoe polish. He did a phoney routine in A.A. for a while. And then he
33. The Prisoner Freed
After twenty years in prison for murder, he knew A.A. was the spot for him . . . if he wanted to stay on the outside. I BEGAN DRINKING as a kid, shortly after I reached my fourteenth birthday. My
32. Promoted To Chronic
This career girl preferred solitary drinking, the blackout kind, often hoping she’d stay that way for keeps. But Providence had other ideas. I WASN’T ALWAYS an alcoholic. In fact it has been only within the last fifteen years that I
31. Jim’s Story
This physician, the originator of A.A.’s first colored group, but badly caught in the toils,tells of his release and of how freedom came as he worked among his own people. I WAS BORN in a little town in Virginia in
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