This Beautiful Planet
July 2025 | AA Celebrates 90 Wonderful Years!

This Beautiful Planet

In December of 1989, when I was sober 14 months, I traveled to Berlin, Germany. Access to East Berlin had just been granted a month before. When I crossed at the checkpoint into East Berlin, the East German border guards looked through my daypack, checked my passport and let me in

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