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July 2003

Get a Cat

His sponsor spoke a different language

My sponsor was one of those sponsors who intuitively know "how to handle situations which used to baffle us." I remember when I was a few weeks sober, I told my sponsor I was lonely. He told me to get a cat. I told him I wasn't interested in cats. He said he didn't care and that I should get a cat. Well, what did he know? I had been doing quite a bit of chatting on the computer, and I had met this girl. She lived in Wyoming. She told me she loved me. I was forty years old, and I couldn't remember the last time someone had told me that. So, I did the only thing I could think of. I quit my job and moved to Wyoming.

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