What attracted a well -bred, well – educated and lovely young woman to a tall, lean, handsome country bumpkin who came from a family if heavy-drinking quarrymen?
A. As Lois herself explained: “Bill Wilson was the most unique man I’d ever seen. He was always intriguing, talking about things that were different, sometimes quite surprising, I could see things in him that he didn’t see in himself and I just knew that someday he would accomplish great things. I don’t know what it is that draws two people together, but I just got crazier about him, “And she continued to love him and nurture him even as his drinking increased. She believed that her deep love and caring would help conquer his addiction and that if only he would stop drinking, he would have the world at his feet. But in the end, she came to realize that her love was not enough–not to overcome the disease of alcoholism which neither knew was his problem.
