Without Lois Wilson founder of Al-anon, there would not be more than 300 recovery groups around the world based on the Twelve-Step program.

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Without Lois Wilson, there would not be more than 300 recovery groups around the world based on the Twelve-Step program. It was Bill Wilson himself, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous and author of the Twelve Steps, who often said that without Lois, he would have died a drunkard’s death long before he started AA with Dr. Bob Smith.

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