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September 2025 | Stories of Gratitude | Featured Section

Grateful Alcoholic? You Bet!

When I first started attending AA meetings, something I heard a lot of people say in their introductions was that they were grateful alcoholics. I couldn’t understand why someone would be grateful to be cursed with this disease. Drinking destroyed my life, my relationships and my will to live. Why on earth would anyone be grateful to go through life with this sickness?

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