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The Greatest Comeback of All-Time?

The way alcoholics speak to one another in public is with a simple question: Are you friends with Bill W.?

It’s a way to protect anonymity and for others to connect and establish that they too are in a program of recovery.

Bill W. has a lasting legacy. So, does Bill W. have the greatest comeback of all-time?

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Yes. I have spent years in those rooms and my best friends are fellow addicts and alcoholics in recovery.

Bill Wilson’s (Bill W.) parents abandon he and his sister as youths.

He suffered from depression and his first love of his life died at the age of 17 from surgical complications.

As a twenty year old had his first alcoholic drink. He claimed, "I had found the elixir of life.” 

Bill Wilson’s comeback resulted in his ultimate sobriety, founding Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and writing the Big Book of AA. 

The Big Book of AA has since sold over 30 million copies and Bill W. was considered one of the top 100 influential people of the 20th century.