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A VISION FOR YOU F
Chapter 11A VISION FOR YOU For mostnormal folks, drinking means convivi-ality, companionship and colorful means release from care, boredom and worry. It isjoyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life isgood. But not so with us in those last days of heavydrinking. The old pleasures were gone. They werebut memories. Never could we recapture the greatmoments of the past. There was an insistent yearningto enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obses-sion that some new miracle of control would enable usto do it. There was always one more attempt andone more less people tolerated us, the more we withdrewfrom society, from life itself. As we became subjectsofKing Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm,the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. Itthickened, ever becoming blacker.
none too promising. The use of spiritual principles in 156 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS * This refers to Bill’s and Dr. Bob’s first visit to A.A. Number Three. See the Pioneer Section. This resulted in A.A.’s first group, at Akron, Ohio, in1935. Alco_9781893007161_6p_01_r6.qxd 8/13/07 10:55 AM Page 156
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