"I came to find the disintegrated pieces of a personality that was me."
"Hillbillies don't like to be obliged."
"He knew why I could not trust people."
"If you fail to carry this message then may God have mercy on those people and may God have mercy on us."
"My story is a little different from a lot of Al-Anons.
I didn't come here to get anybody sober.
I was completely and totally isolated and alone except for one sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
He did not live in my town. He had been my counselor and he was my line to sanity.
I came to you because every day I was standing in front of the mirror and saying
'I have it in me to hold it together - today.'"
"Whatever happens today is none of my business."
"The world is much bigger than my family of origin and I have a home sweet home in the Fellowship."
"My mom said I came out of my room when I was 15."
"Well I learned real quick what the rules in an alcoholic home were: you don't talk, you don't trust and you don't feel and another rule in my home was - you don't need anything."
"I was a basket case of negative emotions...I was in a spiritual coma."
"I know that into each life some rain must fall and, you know, I'm glad mine was spiked because it gave me Al-Anon and it gave me this Program and it gave me a way to live."
"Eye-Lash-Energy came to me at a very early age."
"We had skid row at home."