July 21

July 21 – AM

Page 73-74, Into Action, Chapter 6

We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world.  Rightly and naturally, we think well before we choose the person or persons with whom to take this intimate and confidential step.  Those of us belonging to a religious denomination which requires confession must, and of course, will want to go to the properly appointed authority whose duty it is to receive it.  Though we have no religious connection, we may still do well to talk with someone ordained by an established religion.  We often find such a person quick to see and understand our problem.  Of course, we sometimes encounter people who do not understand alcoholics.

July 21 – PM

age 3, Bill’s Story, Chapter 1

For the next few years fortune threw money and applause my way.  I had arrived.  My judgment and ideas were followed by many to the tune of paper millions.  The great boom of the late twenties was seething and swelling.  Drink was taking an important and exhilarating part in my life.  There was loud talk in the jazz places uptown.  Everyone spent in thousands and chattered in millions.  Scoffers could scoff and be damned.  I made a host of fair-weather friends.
My drinking assumed more serious proportions, continuing all day and almost every night.  The remonstrances of my friends terminated in a row and I became a lone wolf. There were many unhappy scenes in our sumptuous apartment.  There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty to my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes.