26 years huh?  Wow!  How does it feel to be a miracle?  I rather like 
being one myself.  About my sponsor, we talked and mutually decided to 
go back to be friends, not sponsor/sponsee anymore and it seems to be 
better.
As for meetings where there aren't as many "newbies", I don't have much
choice.  Where I live, at least in AA, people are REALLY horrible about
giving rides with a very FEW exceptions.  So I go to daytime meetings 
downtown by bus.  I am legally (not totally) blind and I can't drive, 
so this is what I have available.  It is not the group I'd go to if I 
have my 'druthers, as they say.  But of the daytime groups, it is the 
best - there are some people who are not brand new there.  The other 
daytime groups are pretty much all newcomers and once in a while I go 
to one of these for a change of pace.  I also supplement my recovery 
with the nets. I do what I can and it seems to work.
I am very grateful there are so many daytime meetings available to me.
--- TriToss (tm) Professional 1.0 - #130
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