ESH: Geraldine D - Bill W got her sober in 1947

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🗓️ 24 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Geraldine D from Blairstown New Jersey was in Towns hospital seven times, Bill W was her friend and helped her get sober in 1947, she is telling her story at the 52nd Founders celebration . She is one of my favorite old time speakers and was 87 at the time of this speak. Email: sobercast@gmail.com 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 1800+ 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 in podcast
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.6	This is a great and wonderful group of people as room jammed.
0:31.4	The time was when we sure wished we could see a jam room like this but it would never
0:37.4	happen, you know.
0:39.9	You know, this trip up here tonight means a great deal to me because I spent some time
0:51.2	in Minneapolis drinking, you know, I was employed at the Mayo Clinic in a prominent position
1:02.6	and proceeded to drink myself right out of it and I did a lot of it here in Minneapolis.
1:11.5	I think it's marvelous that you're honoring the one-year people rather than us old bags
1:17.6	that have been around forever and got everything.
1:21.0	And I do congratulate them as being selected as special people to say thank you to.
1:28.8	I couldn't help but think when this young lady got up what I did on my first anniversary.
1:36.3	One of the things that I feel very strongly about celebrating tonight is my brother's
1:43.7	52nd anniversary.
1:46.2	He is dead now but on my first anniversary he was sitting right down here in the front looking
1:54.9	expectantly at me when I got up to receive my emblem and I had wanted to make an impression.
2:04.3	After all, I'm a professional and I've got brains and so forth but I don't know where
2:08.5	they're gone.
2:10.5	They have taken a little trip.
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