By Booker B on 1/8/2011 8:45 AM

I saw the AA drill at second hand. Those people helped my mom pull out of the hole she'd dug, and she never did fall off the wagon after the day she finally called and they visited -- June 21, 1974. Her rock bottom was inability to do anything but sit on the couch, including go to work or do anything for us.

The old man tried AA and ran away in revulsion from the religious aspects to become the local PR flack for Madelyn Murray O'Hair's atheist group. Essentially he substituted addiction to atheist dogma for the booze.

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