Thursday, February 7, 2008

The Abyss

"No one who drank as I did wakes up on the edge of the abyss one morning and says: Things look pretty scary; I think I'd better stop drinking before I fall in. I was convinced I could go as far as I wanted, and then climb back out when it wasn't fun anymore. What happened was, I found myself at the bottom of the canyon thinking I'd never see the sun again. AA didn't pull me out of that hole. It did give me the tools to construct a ladder, with Twelve Steps."

c. 2001, AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 316 With permission, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

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