ESH: Bill J is telling his story at the Rhode Island State Convention

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Bill J is telling his story at the 2004 Rhode Island State Convention Old Timers Meeting he was sober 40 years at the time of this share. Someone named Brian sent this to me, he was a very good friend of Bill and described this as "an honest and deeply emotional, moving and inspiring share about his recovery" Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are in the Pennsylvania area July 14th, The Annual Pennsylvania State Convention of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous will feature speakers, panels, workshops, fellowship events and fun! https://scast.us/penn AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2200+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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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.
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:28.8	You know I like many people sitting here today to not start my life off to become an alcoholic.
0:36.4	I had goals and I had dreams and I had things that I wanted to do with my life as a young
0:42.3	man and I didn't know anything about alcohol or alcoholism or the progression of alcoholism.
0:53.1	So I'm going to tell you a little bit about what it was like, what happened and what it was like now.
1:02.1	I had my first drink when I was about nine months old, I was having trouble with my teeth.
1:09.1	You know, and God, I couldn't walk, I couldn't talk, I didn't know what the heck I was and I wet my pants.
1:20.1	And then I didn't drink for about 13 years and then I wanted an 18-year slip and I ended up
1:34.1	the same way.
1:35.1	I couldn't walk, I couldn't talk, I didn't know what the heck I was and I wet my pants.
1:43.1	And so I came into AA and I wish it was that funny but it wasn't.
1:52.1	I caused a lot of heartache and a lot of misery for the simple reason.
2:01.1	I didn't know anything about the progression of alcohol.
2:07.1	I had my first drink when I was 13 years old and I was sitting under a railroad truss on a petucket and it was New Year's Eve.
2:15.1	And me and another guy had got together, I think, about 75 cents and we were not bought a quarter petry-port wine.
2:24.1	And we sat under that bridge and we took a couple of slugs out of that bottle and God, my eyes were dancing and I was ready to roll.
2:34.1	I said, boy, this stuff is great because all these other feelings disappeared.
2:41.1	All these feelings that I had long before I picked up a drink.
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