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Many years ago, on the occasion of my fourth AA birthday celebration, a friend who shares the same sobriety date as mine dropped by our house and gave me a box of chocolate candy. My mother, who was eighty-five at the time, found the candy the next day and ate over half of the box. When I got home from work and discovered that seven of the twelve pieces were gone, my mother spoke up and said, "I ate it." I said, "Mother, don't you know that I received that as a gift for my anniversary of staying sober for four years?"