Lost & Found
March 2026 | AA & the Family | Our Personal Stories

Lost & Found

How would he ever repay the kindness he received on that dark, cold, drunken night? Years later in AA, he found a way

One time when I was 19, I thought it would be a brilliant idea for me and my girlfriend to hitchhike home after drinking all night at a bar. It was 1975, and hitchhiking wasn’t considered taboo yet. However, there were three problems with my brilliant idea.

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