First Edition First Printing Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Pocket Gift Edition Inscribed by Bill to Sybil

 

This is a 1st/1st Pocket 12&12 gifted to Sybil C. by Bill W. with the following inscription.... "Sybil Dear, For your wonderful devotion to so many! for your constant friendship to me, I give everlasting thanks. Affectionately Bill NY July/65"

 

Opposite on the inside cover Alabam wrote her name and phone number. 

 

 

 

Sybil C. was the first woman to enter A.A. west of the Mississippi. Her date of sobriety was March 23, 1941. In 1939, while visiting her mother, she read the Liberty magazine article called “Alcoholics and God.” She thought the story fascinating but did nothing about it and her downward spiral continued. Eighteen months later God gave her another chance, when she read the Saturday Evening Post’s March 1, 1941 issue which contained the famous Jack Alexander article about A.A.. She wrote to New York and received a reply from Ruth Hock, then Bill Wilson’s secretary, who told her that there were no women members in California, but that Marty Mann was sober in New York. Ruth referred her to the small group of men then in the area.

Frank R. explained that everything she needed to know was in the Big Book. "And it says right in here that when all other measures fail, working with another alcoholic will save the day. That’s what you will be doing, Sybil, working with other alcoholics". It worked, and she never had another drink.

 

When Bill and Lois Wilson made their first visit to Los Angeles in 1943, Sybil was one of the delegation of local A.A.’s who met them at the Town House hotel. Later she met Marty Mann. Because of her dedication to AA, her intensive work with alcoholics and her role in the growth of LA's AA community, Bill and her became good friends. She and Ruth remained friends throughout her life as well.

 

Sybil was honored at the International A.A. Convention in Montreal in 1985. She was then the longest-sober living woman in A.A. When she was introduced to the 50,000 attendees from fifty-three countries, she told the colorful story of A.A.’s beginning in Los Angeles, in which she had played such a vital role. When she finished her talk, the audience rose to its feet as one and gave her a standing ovation which continued so long that some thought it would never stop.

 

A propos de Sybil C. : http://www.kreizker.net/2017/11/sybil-c.html

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France Inter, 9 Novembre 2023

« Les Imbuvables » : sortir de l’alcoolisme

 

Une autobiographie courageuse, trépidante et drôle. Julia est alcoolique. Elle boit plusieurs bouteilles par jour. Malgré une mise en garde médicale, elle s’enfonce dans le déni. Mais grâce à un psy, elle a le déclic, se rend en cure, adhère aux Alcooliques Anonymes et s’en sort. Ce témoignage poignant ne fait pas l’impasse sur les difficultés, les rechutes, les conditions de vie d’une artiste à New York, ni sur les causes de l’alcoolisme de l’autrice de BD. Ce récit dense, parfois drôle, est raconté en noir et blanc dans un dessin qui va à l’essentiel. Et nous touche profondément.

Les Imbuvables par Julia Wertz paru aux Editions de L’Agrume

Plus : https://www.editionslagrume.fr/collections/litterature/les-imbuvables/

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