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September 2003

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A sober ghost

In June 2003, you published a piece I wrote titled "Ghosts." In it, I recalled several old-timers who had helped me over twenty years ago. Most I knew died, and I assumed two others had also passed. What a shock it was to walk into a meeting in a different area and find one of them alive! It was just before the magazine was published. Embarrassed, I rushed over to him to admit my mistake and warn him before he read in the Grapevine that he was dead! We shared a sincere, sober laugh. Walter the Thief is alive and thirty years sober and still goes to meetings.

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