On June 10, 1935, Dr. Bob Smith took his last drink. Two years earlier, Bill Wilson had hit his own bottom in a hotel room. When these two men finally sat down together in Akron, Ohio — neither knowing it would change the world — they simply talked honestly about their drinking. That conversation became Alcoholics Anonymous. Millions of lives later, the simple act of one alcoholic talking to another remains the heart of the program.
Source: GSO Archives
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