Locked Out
April 2026 | Getting into General Service | Our Personal Stories

Locked Out

With a few months sober, he needed to get a new sponsor. He had some ideas on how to do it— and so did his wife

I grew up in Quincy Point, south of Boston. There was not one street corner that didn’t have a barroom or liquor store or both. As kids, we would go over to a field, take a ginger ale and put an aspirin in it. Someone told us that would make us drunk. It tasted terrible.

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