On (01 Dec 95) TOM ANDERSON wrote to HARRIET LEVY...
 TA> Geeez... 1985, Seems like yesterday... Got sober that year. (G)
 Yeah, and I was in the deepest depths of my disease....
 1985 was the year that I first missed paying the IRS that lead
 me to be further and further into debt....
 1985 was the year I lost my driver's license due to the simple
 inability of maintaining a payment schedule to my insurance 
 company (ah the truth comes out) and had an accident under
 the influence.... of marijuana.....I was a very angry
 driver....
 1985 was the year that saw the begining of the end of a lot
 of things that were held dear to me.. ie the constant break
 downs of my Harley, of which I sold the next year because
 I could not afford the repairs.. which was directly attributable
 to drinking and using...
 1985 I was only 24..... and heading for the bottom very quickly
 and enjoying every minute of it and justifying it too!
 not knowing that in only four years I would hit the doors of AA...
 and in 5 years get my first day sober (1-1-90)
 and I was one of the lucky ones...... I stayed despite slipping and
 sliding around the first 90 days there... and still got sober before
 the age of 29.....
 Tim....
... what'cha gonna do?
--- PPoint 1.92
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