Wake Up Call
February 2025 | Longtimers | Our Personal Stories

Wake Up Call

Divorced and disillusioned, this retiree was about to leave the state—and AA too. Good thing he made it to his noon meeting

In 2015, I was 52 years old and 26 years sober. I had been living in Alaska for 21 years, had just retired, recently gotten divorced and I was heading back home to Texas.

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