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Personal Stories

Recovering and Recovered Alcoholics share their personal accounts.

  • 12 Steps to Freedom in Christ
    Karl R tells how the 12 steps of A.A. led to freedom from King Alcohol.
  • Drink, Die, Or Find A Better Way
    I wanted to drink every day. I didn't want to die and I knew of no other way to get better. By Mitchell K.
  • The Professor and The Paradox
    A Professor discovers a pardox in giving up drinking. From the Personal Stories section of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, 2nd edition.
  • The Unbeliever
    I could not believe anything that I could not understand. By Hank P, one of the Pioneer Members of Alcoholics Anonymous