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JUNE 2023

“SOBER TRAVEL” — For many parts of the world, July and August are the main traveling months. But people also travel for business, to visit family or friends, to do a city trip, for religious reasons, and much more. In this special edition, members share how they stay sober and joyful while traveling. We are also very happy to offer you a couple of articles from fellows in Japan. Their stories might attract you to travel to the Land of the Rising Sun, in sobriety and joy.

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Enjoy reading all the articles of the current magazine below.

The Power of an Explosive New Affection
A few years ago, I read a book, the theme of which was hiding from love. When I entered SA, I discovered—like many addicts—that I had been hiding from love my whole life. For me that’s seventy years which is no short time. A friend in SA who means a lot to me, shared that he too was hiding from love, but that God was working powerfully in his life to change him from the inside out. Slowly, a new desire for real loving connection with people began replacing his old tendency to keep away from people.

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Ninth Step Letter to All My Acting-Out Partners
This letter is for every man I ever had sex with. I want to write this letter to make my amends to you. I have used you, either once or regularly, to fill an emptiness inside me that was impossible to fill with human “power.”

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Hope Beyond Hope
Recently during a noon meeting, we were reading Bill’s story out of the Big Book of AA. The secretary stopped us about half way where Bill wrote, “A tumbler full of gin followed by half a dozen bottles of beer would be required if I were to eat any breakfast. Nevertheless, I still thought I could control the situation, and there were periods of sobriety which renewed my wife’s hope. Gradually things got worse.” We call people like this beyond help.

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The Story of the Japanese JIGSAW PUZZLE
In July 1990, our oldtimer Yoshi attended AA's 55th Anniversary World Convention in Seattle, WA, USA. He was in Seattle for a week, but as the convention was for three days, he thought about how to use the remaining days. Since he was a social worker working at a children's center at the time, he wanted to visit a local children's home.

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The Development of SA in Japan
There are 19 physical meeting groups that are held regularly in Japan. One of those groups is for women only. Each group has their own schedule and may meet anywhere from weekly to once a month. In addition, there are two online groups that meet on a regular basis.

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