Old-Timers
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Old-Timers

He’s got plenty of time-and he uses it to do service

I got sober September 26th, 1985, but I consider myself a piker compared with guys I go to meetings with who have 40 to 50 years of sobriety. And I had a real old-time sponsor who got sober in Akron whose sponsor was Norman Y. Norman was one of the first 100 who sobered up in 1939 and is mentioned in the A.A. book Dr. Bob and the Good Old-Timers.

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