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December 2004

One Hundred Years and Counting

Today, on my one hundredth birthday, my "babies" are taking me out to lunch to celebrate. I've sponsored dozens of women in the past fifty-three years of my sobriety, and now most of my babies are twenty and thirty years sober. I haven't sponsored anyone new in the past ten years because my hearing is almost gone. But I learned so much from my babies. They would ask a difficult question, and I had to go to my Big Book to find the answer. I've read that book hundreds of times.

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