March 2025
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Good thing he kept coming. The coffee and pizza weren’t so bad after all, and he even got on the team
On a Saturday in May of 1988, I walked to an AA meeting about 15 minutes from my parents’ home on Staten Island. I had no driver’s license, no friends, no employer, no ambition, no money, no investments, no faith, no hope and no desire to stop drinking. In fact, I really wanted a drink. It had been about 14 hours since I had finished the beers I bought with cash I took out of my mom’s wallet. I had a pack of cigarettes, and I really wanted a drink. I wondered if I would be able to smoke at the meeting. Did I mention that I really wanted a drink?
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