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One evening during a trip to Akron, Ohio, Bill desperately craved a drink after an important business deal fell through. Since alcoholism had almost killed him, staying sober was a life and death issue. Bill knew that the only way for him to resist the temptation to drink would be to find someone to talk to. He went to a phone booth and frantically called a list of ministers from a church directory, but no one was available. Finally someone put him in touch with a doctor named Bob Smith who agreed to visit Bill, but only for a few minutes. This “short conversation” lasted the entire evening and led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. “Clearly,” writes Douglas Bloch, “it was divine guidance working through those ‘invisible hands’ that brought Bill W. and Dr. Bob together.” Adapted from I Am with You Always, by Douglas Bloch, published by Bantam Books
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