Keith C.
| Speaker | Keith C. |
| Event | 41st South Coast Roundup |
| Location | Brookings, OR |
| Year | 2018 |
| Era | Modern Era |
| Fellowship | AA |
| Duration | 47:32 |
| RS Number | RS-G056 |
Transcript
Good afternoon. My name is Keith Galloway and I'm an alcoholic. My sobriety date is September 30th of 2015 and for that I'm truly grateful. So I've had a bunch of people ask the sparkles thing. So there's a whole bunch of stories that I just let run but the real one has to do with putting family back together. So I was this is a long ways forward but we're gonna start there and then we'll come back around. The first Christmas that I was sober I was not exactly welcome to spend time with my nieces. I have 11 nieces. I'm the oldest of seven kids. I've got five little brothers and a little sister and a guy like me left to my own devices. I wasn't allowed to be around their children. Well a good criminal moves back home when he gets sober and my mom said to my brothers look your brother lives here now so understand that if you come to Christmas your daughters are going to see their uncle. And I go to my Saturday morning meeting. My home group's the Canby Saturday breakfast meeting. It's in Canby. It's in Oregon City at the Wild Hare Saloon Saturday mornings at 9. It says it's closed but walk in. I know it was like a dream come true when I found that out. It's open when it says it's closed. But I didn't have the heart to erase or use fingernail polish remover to remove all the sparkly little fingernail polish that my nieces decided to paint my entire hand. Not both hands. And there was toes too but they didn't see that part. You know because this is the first time I had experienced love in a long long time. So a bunch of the old old guys in the room were looking and they're like what's up with this dude? And everybody's like I don't know it's the 21st century. You know it's usually the the over 30 years sober people they're like I don't get that. But that's that's the real story. There's a whole bunch of other ones but it has to do with me being allowed to spend time with my family again. So we're gonna go back to the beginning. Again I'm the oldest of seven kids. Six boys and a girl. I was raised in a family that…
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