What Love Means
January 2026 | Stories for Day Counters | Our Personal Stories

What Love Means

Through good times and bad, an AA friendship turns into a lifelong bond

On June 16, 1983, after trying everything humanly possible to get sober (that is, everything except not drinking), I fell to my knees and surrendered. I joined AA. I was 32 years old.

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