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Lorraine B (Wichita, KS)
4/18/1987 in Reno, NV  EVENT: 16th Annual Reno Spring Festival  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 46 min )

"Al-Anons talk longer than AAs because we remember more."

"I am not a public speaker. I may be more like a cross-eyed javelin thrower who doesn't set any records but he sure keeps the audience alert."

Jan C (Houston, TX)
7/18/1998 in Atlanta, GA  EVENT: 23rd Allatoona Roundup  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 1 hr 16 min )

"I was like a chameleon on a plaid skirt."

"Trying to keep an alcoholic sober is like trying to teach a pig to sing.

It doesn't work and it just annoys the pig."

Donna L (Whitney, TX)
12/1/1977 in Palm Springs, CA  EVENT: Palm Desert Roundup  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 36 min )

"If you ever get in trouble - Power will get you out."

She says,

"I do not ever have to be afraid again."

Arbutus O (Brownwood, TX)
8/5/2000 in Columbus, GA  EVENT: 22nd Georgia Al-Anon/Alateen Converntion  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 1 hr )

"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."

Pat C (Austin, TX)
6/7/2003 in Hinton, OK  EVENT: Canyon Conference  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 50 min )

"Am I weller than some by coming all those years or am I sicker than some? I just still feel the need.... I am cultivating the young ones because you can still drive and I need you!"

"Just being married to an alcoholic doesn't make me an Al-Anon...Just sitting in a garage doesn't make you a car."

Kathy H (Cincinnati, OH)
7/17/1993 in Atlanta, GA  EVENT: 18th Atlanta Roundup  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 1 hr 8 min )

"I was always fascinated by kids who got into trouble...If Saddam Hussein had been an exchange student, I would have been attracted to him."

Dawn C (Reston, VA)
11/12/1994 in Ft Walton Beach, FL  EVENT: 26th Gulf Coast Roundup  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 58 min )

"We didn't have old timers. We had a little Blue Book."

Jan F (Shawnee, OK)
11/13/1991 in Knoxville, TN  EVENT: 18th Tennessee Al-Anon Convention  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 1 hr 4 min )

"I was a basket case of negative emotions...I was in a spiritual coma."

Barbara H (Atlanta, GA)
8/3/2013 in Atanta, GA  EVENT: 38th Atlanta Roundup  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 1 hr 5 min )

"The Atlanta Roundup has not always been Al-Anon friendly but it is Al-Anon friendly today."

"I am of the theory that when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck."

"I stand before you a reformed husband beater. I have been kicked out of more bars never having had a drink for attacking my husband."

Winnie E (La Puenta, CA)
9/20/1986 in Fresno, CA  EVENT: AFG Conv Luncheon  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 1 hr 11 min )

"The only thing worse than drinking was sobriety. It's easier to watch him throw up than to grow up."