Tales Of a New Year's Eve Party

December 31, 1988--I was coming up on twelve years of sobriety and was invited to a New Year's party. Some long-term friends of my family (I went to high school with their children) hosted it. The guest list was mostly professors, scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, i.e., various Ph.D. types. Nearly everyone brought a bottle of something as a gift for the hosts. There was champagne, wine, and various liquors, including a half-gallon of an exquisite scotch.