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John S (San Francisco, CA)
7/15/1995 in Sacramento, CA  EVENT: Northern California World Service Assembly (NCWSA)  TYPE: Al-Anon, Male, Story  ( 1 hr 7 min )

"Do I tell it the way I remember it or do I tell it the way it happened?"

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."

Kay L (Malibu, CA)
1/29/2011 in Hilton Head, SC  EVENT: 30th Mid-Winter Conference  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 1 hr 8 min )

"I am here because I loved an alcoholic, I wish it was only one."

"I believe that alcoholism is a self-diagnosed disease and I say that having tried to convince people they have it."

"My MO was, no one knew how to take care of themselves and it was my job to inform them all."

"Heroin was my drug of choice with other people...I could not get high and take care of you at the same time."

Pat C (Austin, TX)
3/24/1990 in Twin Peaks, CA  EVENT: Unknown  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 51 min )

"It says in the Bible that 'This, too, shall pass.' It doesn't say, 'This to shall stay'."

"All my knowledge of cancer will not keep me from contracting it."

Fran B (Coffeeville, MS)
2/26-3/1/1992 in St. Simons Island, GA  EVENT: 30th St. Simons Island Weekend  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 48 min )

"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."

Barbara B (Indianapolis, IN)
Jan 1988 in Winston Salem, NC  EVENT: Tar Heel Mid-Winter Conference  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 50 min )

"I'm one of those who thinks a story starts with 'Once upon a time..' and ends with 'got married and lived happily ever after'. And I found out that isn't so. People get married and get happy once in a while and that's whether there is alcoholism or not."

Sharon B (Buford, GA)
9/17/2004 in Macon, GA  EVENT: Georgia Al-Anon Assembly  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 35 min )

"I was overly responsible."

Nell E (Okmulge, OK)
May 1993 in Lake of the Ozarks, MO  EVENT: 25th Annual Missouri AFG Convention  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 52 min )

"All I wanted to do was kill him."

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."

Lavonne O (Newark, CA)
3/13/1993 in Fresno, CA  EVENT: NCWSA Spring Conference  TYPE: Al-Anon, Female, Story  ( 42 min )

"Is your soul dry from desolation, wrinkled from worry, itchy from alcoholic irritation, rough from resentments?
Try Oil of Al-Anon."