
Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Sober Sunrise is a podcast that features AA Speaker Tapes from around the world. It offers speakers sharing step-work, workshops, and general fellowship discussion points, rather than being an AA discussion podcast. The podcast is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous in any way.
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I Wanted to Know How You Stopped Starting - AA Speaker - Jeff W.
One of AA’s original members recalls how a living example showed him the difference between being forced to stop drinking and finally learning how to stop taking the first drink.
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I Thought I Was Empty, but I Was Full of Me - AA Speaker - Peter M.
In this Big Book workshop on AA Steps 10, 11, and 12, Peter explains how inventory, prayer, meditation, and intensive work with other alcoholics replace the noise of self with spiritual freedom.
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5,200 Pages Before the Big Book Made Sense - AA Speaker - KC R.
After getting sober at sixteen and reading thousands of Big Book pages in treatment, KC discovers why information alone could not relieve the obsession—and what changed when a sponsor finally walked her through the Twelve Steps.
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I Spent Seven Years in AA Without the Program - AA Speaker - Chris R.
After seven years in and out of AA, Chris learns that attending meetings is not the same as working the Big Book, taking the Steps, and serving other alcoholics.
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The Diamond Watch That Led Me to AA - AA Speaker - Stan G.
After losing an entrusted diamond watch during a blackout, Stan walks into his first AA meeting expecting lunch—and discovers the fellowship, sponsorship, and Steps that change his life.
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From Dirty Snow to Happy Destiny - AA Speaker - Ernie R.
A veteran AA speaker shares how one desperate morning beneath the U.S. Capitol led him from broken promises and financial chaos into sponsorship, the Steps, service, and a life he genuinely wanted sober.
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Stop Trying to Be So Cool - AA Speakers - Lindsey & Nate F.
Lindsey and Nate each came into AA trying to look cool and remain in control; recovery began when they became vulnerable enough to admit they were falling apart and ask another alcoholic for help.
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They Said Don’t Come Back. You Said Keep Coming Back - AA Speaker - Don C.
Don’s family once took him to the edge of the reservation and told him never to return; years later, Alcoholics Anonymous said “keep coming back,” and he knew he had found his tribe.
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The Woman I Didn’t Like Became My Sponsor - AA Speaker - Liz Y.
At ten months sober, Liz hated AA meetings, hated the happy people in them, and was close to giving up; then the woman she couldn’t stand became the sponsor who led her through the Big Book and Twelve Steps.
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Bottom Is a Feeling, Not a Place - AA Speaker - Frank M.
In this AA workshop, Frank says bottom is not a jail cell, divorce court, treatment center, or empty bank account - it is the moment an alcoholic realizes, “I can’t live drinking, and I can’t live not drinking.”
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What AA Gave My Mother Was Half a Quart of Milk - AA Speaker - Billy N.
Billy was told at 17 that he might be too cool to get sober; AA eventually carried him through jail and homelessness into Big Book service, family repair, and a life his mother could finally discuss with pride.
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God Wrote Himself Into My Story - AA Speaker - Norma A.
Norma says God wrote Himself into her AA story, turning three years of abstinence without the Steps into a life of surrender, service, and faith strong enough to meet devastating grief.
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The Captain Who Had to Start From the Ground Up - AA Speaker - Lyle P.
Lyle’s last drunk became national news, but the more remarkable AA story is what followed: treatment, federal prison, a repaired family, and an impossible return to the cockpit.
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I Belonged in the Universe Again - AA Speaker - Michael B.
At his first AA meeting, Michael looked past seven older men in polyester plaid pants and recognized in their eyes the peace he had last known as a five-year-old sitting in the high grass of the Andes.
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From a Hospital Bed to a Ph.D. - AA Speaker - Dave D.
Dave returned to Alcoholics Anonymous at 22 from a hospital bed, unable to move and given little hope, then used the same AA actions that kept him sober to return to college and earn a Ph.D. in engineering.
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Match Calamity with Serenity - AA Speaker - Mary T.
At 19 years sober, Mary realized she knew the Big Book well enough to keep everyone away from her, and AA asked her to trade a God of reason for a God she could trust as a friend.
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The War Was Over. I Lost. Thank God. - AA Speaker - Rick M.
Rick reached Alcoholics Anonymous from a cable-equipped tent beside the Russian River, where even the town drunks had begun looking at him with pity, and discovered that losing the war was how he finally got his life back.
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The Rottweilers That Kept Me in AA - AA Speaker - Don L.
At six months sober, Don had decided Alcoholics Anonymous did not work and was ready to quit; then two loose Rottweilers chased him down a hill, put him completely in the moment, and sent him back to his sponsor and the Steps.
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After 46 Years, the Prison Still Smelled Like Fear - AA Speaker - Johnnie H.
Johnnie returned to the Folsom cell where he had lived 46 years earlier, then crossed the old mess hall to carry the Alcoholics Anonymous message to 300 prisoners: you don’t have to live like this anymore.
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I Don’t Drink Alcohol, I Drink Life - AA Speaker - Lila R.
Lila arrived at a basement meeting called the Hole in the Ground planning to stay for a few weeks; 25 years later, she is still learning that the hardest spiritual practice is sometimes to do nothing and wait.
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Thank God It Didn’t All Happen in the First Year - AA Speaker - Pat L.
Pat’s recovery did not arrive as one tidy awakening. It unfolded through hard-won amends, fatherhood, sponsorship, 25 years of meetings, and a trip to Akron he finally bought as a gift to himself.
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Your Misery Is Refunded at the Door - AA Speaker - Eileen F.
At 17, Eileen stood at the edge of AA waiting for someone to sell her on sobriety. The pitch never came. Instead, the people, the Big Book, and the work asked her to risk the one thing she already had: her misery.
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The Fourth Step Is an Inventory of Who I’m Not - AA Speaker - Scott L.
Scott thought the Twelve Steps looked like punishment until a sponsor showed him that Step Four was not a life story or confession, but a way to lay down what had been blocking him and discover who he was not.
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The Fellowship I Never Knew I Craved - AA Speaker - John S.
John came to AA expecting lessons in social drinking and discovered something far bigger: people who taught him how to live, stayed close when life became frightening, and gave him a place he never knew he had been searching for.
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The Fourth Dimension Is Love and Service - AA Speaker - Chris S.
Chris shares a fast, funny, and brutally honest AA talk about blackouts, fear, meetings, relapse, the Big Book, and what it actually means to be rocketed into the fourth dimension.
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Whatever Time I Have, I Have This Program - AA Speaker - Dennis M.
Dennis shares a funny, honest, and deeply human AA story about drinking, drag, drugs, treatment, coming back to Alcoholics Anonymous, and finding a program he could rely on when life got real.
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The Book Hasn’t Been Wrong Yet - AA Speaker - Bart R.
Bart R. shares about getting past meetings alone and actually living the program: taking the Big Book seriously, working the steps, making amends, practicing 10 and 11, and carrying the message to the next alcoholic.
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The Question Only AA Could Answer - AA Speaker - Jack K.
Jack K. shares the kind of AA story that starts long before the first drink: lonely, separate, different, angry, and afraid, then drinking like it was the answer until it nearly took everything. What lands hardest is his description of AA’s power: people who can answer the question you haven’t even asked because they’ve been there too.
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I've Been on This Cloud for 17 Years - AA Speaker - Perry W.
Perry shares a high-energy AA talk about early drinking, jail, desperation, sponsorship, working the Steps, and the joy of staying on the pink cloud for 17 years.
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What Is the Price Tag? - AA Speaker - Freddie G.
Freddie’s story looks at AA as a matter of life and death, and at the responsibility that comes with being given a life back.
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God’s Giving Away Grace - AA Speaker - Mike P.
Iron Mike shares a raw and funny AA talk about prison, violence, relapse, oddballism, grace, and the Alcoholics Anonymous life that gave him a home, a family, and a way to be useful.
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Fewer Clipboards, More Trenches - AA Speaker - Myers R.
This sponsorship workshop looks at what it means to help another alcoholic without becoming their therapist, lawyer, doctor, guru, or Higher Power.
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No Obsession to Roll in Poison Ivy - AA Speaker - Brian B.
This Step One talk looks at the difference between consequences, control, and the deeper problem of not being able to stay stopped.
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More Than “Keep Coming Back” - AA Speaker - Chris R.
Chris R. shares a direct and powerful AA talk about why meetings alone did not treat his alcoholism, how the Steps changed everything, and why newcomers need more than slogans.
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Big Book Will Travel - AA Speaker - Don B.
Don’s sponsor handed him a card that said “Big Book Will Travel,” and that old AA spirit runs through the whole talk: show up, carry the message, and give away what saved you.
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The Eight Minutes That Got Me Here - AA Speaker - Cliff R.
Cliff says alcohol gave him eight minutes where the black rock in his belly went quiet, but AA taught him a different way out: service, laughter, and giving away what saved him.
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The Miracle Is: I Was Ready - AA Speaker - Robi S.
Robi shares a funny, honest, and deeply moving AA talk about untreated alcoholism, the spiritual malady, amends, sponsorship, and the miracle of being ready when grace shows up.
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God Interrupted My Death - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter M. shares a powerful AA talk about being recovered, hitting the bitter end, and finding a solution far deeper than simply putting the plug in the jug.
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I Like the Effect Produced by the Steps - AA Speaker - Scott S.
Scott says alcohol made life switch from black and white to color, but 19 years later the effect he keeps coming back for is his mother’s respect, his son’s trust, and the Steps working in real life.
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I Had One Relationship 20 Times - AA Speaker - Keith L.
Keith says he used to think he had 20 relationships, until he realized he had one relationship 20 times.
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A Belly Full of Fear and a Head Full of AA - AA Speaker - Pat P.
Pat says his wife went back to work and told him they were going to build their lives stick by stick. In sobriety, that is exactly what happened.
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What You’re Looking For, You’re Looking With - AA Speaker - Ed M.
Ed learned from Chuck C. that what we came to AA looking for, we were already looking with.
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Out of Dirt Comes Flowers - AA Speaker - Vaughn Q.
Father Vaughn says the dirt is beautiful, because out of the pain, wreckage, and defeat of alcoholism, something living can finally grow.
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The Glee of This Moment - AA Speaker - Carla R.
After years of running, surviving, and trying to escape herself, Carla found something in AA she never expected: the ability to be awake in this moment.
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5,000 Meetings Before I Heard Step One - AA Speaker - Tom P.
Tom had years in AA, thousands of meetings, and still drank again. Then one Big Book talk in treatment finally explained what he had missed.
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Don’t Let Me Meet God With Alcohol on My Breath - AA Speaker - Grant P.
Grant hit the end of half-measures with one desperate thought: he didn’t want to meet God with alcohol on his breath.
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At the Christening of AA - AA Speaker - Paul K.
Paul says he was not there at the birth of Alcoholics Anonymous, but he was there at the christening.
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The Invisible Rowboat - AA Speaker - Arnor K.
Arnor says AA can feel like an invisible rowboat: it may not make sense at first, but you still have to get in and row.
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The Dry Drunk Cometh - AA Speaker - Deandre M.
DeAndre thought he already knew enough about the first three steps. His sponsor heard two sentences and saw the dry drunk coming.
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Parts 9 & 10 - Steps 5-12 - AA Big Book Workshop
In the finale of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, the written inventory becomes admission, willingness, amends, daily practice, and a message carried to someone else.
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The Phoniest Man in Alcoholics Anonymous - AA Speaker - Lou F.
Lou walked into his first AA meeting wearing one black shoe and one brown shoe, and heard something no one had told him in 28 years: “Welcome, you’re in the right place.”
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 8 - Working the 4th Step - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 8 of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, Joe and Charlie slow down and make the Fourth Step practical instead of mysterious.
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I Was Stone Cold Sober and Stark Raving Mad - AA Speaker - Steve L.
Steve attended meetings almost every morning for 100 days, but without a sponsor or the Steps, he was stone cold sober and slowly losing his mind.
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Parts 6 & 7 - We Agnostics & How It Works - AA Big Book Workshop
In Parts 6 and 7 of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, willingness becomes action as We Agnostics leads directly into How It Works and the Twelve Steps.
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It Was Never the Lack of What I Am- AA Speaker - John V.
John spent years believing he was unwanted because he was Indigenous, uneducated, poor, and unable to speak the way other people did. AA taught him that none of those things had robbed him of life nearly as much as refusing to accept himself.
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God Is Whatever Got You to Those People - AA Speaker - Karl M.
Karl called his father, a minister and theologian, expecting him to explain God. His father gave him a much shorter answer: God is whatever got you to those people, so do what they say.
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I Went to One Meeting Too Many - AA Speaker - Paul O.
Paul went to AA for seven months with no intention of becoming an alcoholic. Then he attended one meeting too many, caught himself laughing with everyone else, and never drank again
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The Second Half of Step One - AA Speaker - Michael M.
Michael knew he was alcoholic for twelve years before AA, but the part that changed his life was learning what came after putting the drink down.
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 5 - More About Alcoholism - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 5 of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, Joe and Charlie dig into the strange mental blank spot that makes the first drink possible again.
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This Is Where Dead People Come to Life - AA Speaker - Daniel E.
Daniel says he spent his drinking years chasing the perfect level, but every time he found it, he flew right past it.
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 4 - There Is A Solution - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 4 of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, Joe and Charlie explain the two powers in There Is A Solution: the fellowship that holds us and the spiritual experience that changes us.
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I’m Not a Has-Been, I’m a Never Was - AA Speaker - Jerome S.
Jerome says he was not a has-been, but a never-was, until AA gave him a design for living that took him from Skid Row and institutions to sobriety, family, education, and useful work.
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 3 - Bill's Story Explained - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 3 of the Joe & Charlie Founders’ Day series, Joe and Charlie walk through Bill’s Story as the first full example of alcoholism, identification, and recovery in the Big Book.
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 2 - The Doctor’s Opinion Explained - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 2 of the Joe & Charlie Founders’ Day series, Joe and Charlie explain why The Doctor’s Opinion is one of the keys to understanding alcoholism itself.
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 1 - AA History - AA Big Book Workshop
In honor of AA’s 91st Founders’ Day, we’re sharing the legendary Joe & Charlie Big Book workshops in order, from AA history through the Steps, over the next 10 days.
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You’re Working the Program on the Wrong Guy - AA Speaker - Geoff C.
Geoff says his first sponsor warned him that until he shook hands with the real version of himself, he would be working the program on the wrong guy.
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There Is No Door Number Three - AA Speaker - Chris S.
Chris used to know exactly where the serious AA people were, and he knew exactly how to avoid them. When he finally meant business, those “fanatics” were the ones he went looking for.
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My Wager Is Too High - AA Speaker - Scott L.
Scott could fly supersonic jets, but he could not outfly alcoholism. By the time AA found him, the dream job, the willpower, and the John Wayne act had all stopped working.
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God Came Crashing Into My Darkness - AA Speaker - Chris H.
Chris says treatment was only the discovery that a solution existed. The real change came when AA, sponsorship, and a God she could not yet name reached into the prison she had built around herself.
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I Paid Half a Million Dollars for a Big Book - AA Speaker - Adam T.
Adam went through treatment 28 times before a sponsor cut through the badge of honor: it did not make him an alcoholic. It meant he had paid half a million dollars for a Big Book.
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We Know the Way In and the Way Out - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter opens with silence, then challenges the room with a hard question: are we actually feeding the spirit, or just giving God a quick check-in on the way out the door?
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My Sponsor Knows, But Not This Part - AA Speaker - Kane T.
Kane kept parts of his life away from the program until prison, sponsorship, and a Fargo home group started showing him that every little thing had to come into the light.
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Sober Without a Solution - AA Speaker - Melanie S.
Melanie had treatment, meetings, chips, and even years without drinking, but the real turn came when someone finally showed her what it meant to have lost the power to choose.
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I Wanted to Be Ordinary - AA Speaker - David B.
Dave was the first AA member in Quebec, but what finally reached him was simple: the Big Book described people who got sober, went to work, came home, and lived like ordinary human beings.
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I Lived the Twelve Steps Backwards - AA Speaker - Tarek K.
Tarek says he did not just resist AA. He lived the Twelve Steps backwards until alcohol stopped working and his life shrank to fear, isolation, and trying to control everything.
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The Window I Broke Cannot Be Replaced - AA Speaker - Terri K.
Terri says prison is where she found God, but the harder truth came years later: some amends cannot replace what was broken.
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Seven Years in AA Before I Tried the Program - AA Speaker - Chris R.
Chris kept coming back to AA for seven years, but nothing changed until one Big Book meeting showed him the difference between attending and recovering.
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A Book, a Pound of Coffee, and a New AA Meeting- AA Speaker - Bud M.
Bud came to AA straight out of jail with a sentence hanging over him, a restitution bill he could not imagine paying, and nobody left who wanted his phone call.
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Where There’s Love, There’s Service - AA Speaker - Tom F.
Tom says AA service gets dangerous when alcoholics trade the fire line for paperwork and forget the one job that saves lives.
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I Was Stupid Enough to Follow the Instructions - AA Speaker - Ray M.
Ray came in young, separate, and sure he was smarter than the room, then found out AA worked best when he was finally willing to follow directions.
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