Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Wasn’t AA meant to be about helping people?

My friend the bricklayer is being hounded out of meetings by the so-called safeguarding brigade

What used to be a support group no longer feels like that. Credit: fizkes/iStock  
issue 21 October 2023

The hatchet-faced woman who shouted at me pulled out her lipstick and sat reapplying it during the meeting. The pretty young girl next to her took out a nail file and sat filing her nails, as people shared. She was wearing see-through, skin-tight, skin-coloured leggings and a pair of six-inch wedged boots.

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