December 1997
Hope Springs Eternal
In the June Grapevine, we issued a call for articles on working with wet drunks. We received a number of good stories, not only on doing this important Twelfth Step work, but also on the experience of being a wet drunk. You'll find one such story below an
"Does this belong to you?" asked one of the two police officers at my front door. Supported between them was my friend Joe (not his real name). One of my neighbors had heard noises from the dumpster area behind our apartment building during the predawn hours, and the investigating officers found Joe sleeping in the dumpster. He told them he was waiting for daylight to visit me. As usual, Joe was very drunk and very dirty. He'd just arrived in town on a drunk during which he had been "riding the rails."
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