Author of the Big Book Story: Winner Takes All

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🗓️ 1 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Gay N is the author of the story in the 4th edition of the Big Book titled -Winner Takes All . Gay got sober in1985 and was 19 years sober at the time of this speak in 2004 at an unknown convention held in Ventura Ca. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:28.3	Good morning, my name is Gayne and I'm an alcoholic.
0:32.7	This has been a wonderful convention, there's no doubt in my mind that God is live and
0:37.1	well here.
0:39.1	I am doing a sobriety countdown and sobriety countdown, it kind of reminds me of a meeting
0:45.6	I went to a few weeks ago in San Antonio.
0:50.2	This guy was at the meeting, I didn't know him or well, I didn't know him at all actually.
0:54.6	He came in and he said, I have double digits sobriety, he said, I am so excited, I have
1:01.2	finally, finally I may double digits sobriety, I've been sobered 10 days, I had just warmed
1:10.8	my heart, you know, but each day of sobriety is a miracle, you know, and I had that miracle
1:16.3	in my life yesterday, I stayed sober all day yesterday.
1:19.9	I didn't have to take a drink and that's a miracle.
1:23.4	I heard a story about this guy that was sitting at a bar drinking and when he got, he drank
1:31.7	quite a bit, you know, and then he drank a little bit more, but it was time for him to
1:37.6	leave and when he got up he fell down and he tried to get up again and he fell down.
1:43.7	So he crawled over to the door and he tried to get out of the door and he fell down again.
1:49.6	So he just crawled out of the bar to his car and he tried to stand up and get in his car
1:54.1	and he fell down again.
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