Take the steps
May 2018

Take the steps

An old-timer, once known as Shaky Jake, walks us through the program that changed his life

I had my last drink on Thanksgiving Day, 1973. I had just been arrested at 2:45 that morning for my fourth DWI and I was in jail again. Sometime in the early afternoon, I was released from the drunk tank and went home to my filthy hovel, where I lived with my two small sons, who I had dragged around with me all over the country for the past year.

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