THANK YOU so much for your response to my call. Your timing and willingness to help are deeply appreciated. With God’s help, a corner has been turned, and with God’s help, the grace will continue to come to take me one step at a time, one day at a time. Please send the enclosed literature a.s.a.p. I am drinking in the truth with pain and fear and hope and a dawning sense of freedom and possibilities. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your fellowship there for being available. God bless you all.

…(Phoenix) now has five meetings a week. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.…

We kicked off our new SA meeting here at my place last Monday night. There were two of us! But two more are promising to attend next week. So we have a group of four: Sandy K., Charley M., John O., and myself. A few more have expressed interest and will possibly attend soon.…

I’ve been attending AA meetings in Albany and Schenectady. My sobriety, though inconstant, is absolutely working. I feel a great sense of joy and self-worth. Thank you.

…We are growing slowly, moving out of the “raw addiction” into the substructure of the disease.…

Enclosed is a…donation from Cleveland’s Marathon to be used to further SA’s 12 Step work to bring the message of sexual sobriety to those in need of it.…

Just a short note to share where I am.

I have been out of prison for two months. I am maintaining my sobriety by going to two meetings a week here in Vancouver. I will celebrate my first birthday on November 12. I am fortunate that people from some other groups will be there for the cake.

Murray R. is maintaining sponsorship of the group in prison and is trying to get permission to go to another prison where some men have transferred to so the program can be maintained for them. When I am off parole in January 1988, I am going to join Murray R. in the sponsorship. How is that for positive thinking? Thanks for my sobriety.

…Here in the Huntsville Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections, we are not recognized as sick or in need of special help. But, we know! We have two groups of 10-12 men once a week plus a group on Fridays for education on what, how, where, when, etc. our faults lay and how to work on thought patterns as well as fear, pain, rejection, all the classic things I (we) were blind to on the outside. Maybe someday Texas will “come of age.”

Thank you for any help you can give me in this matter. Keep up the GOOD WORK!

…We (Ontario) currently have 3+ members and are meeting on a weekly basis.