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May 2003

Just Call Me

It's funny: once you talk with strangers, they're not really strangers anymore

When I first got sober in 1985, because I couldn't stand myself anymore, I was not big on the idea of calling strangers with my problems. But I knew that I was a wreck, that those people at the meetings were not wrecks, and that I wanted to be a former wreck and get what they had. And lo and behold, when I called them, suddenly they weren't strangers anymore.

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