Clarence S. — AA Meeting (1982)

RS-G045 · PIONEER ERA · AA · 1982

Clarence Snyder

AA Meeting · Phoenix, AZ
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SpeakerClarence Snyder
EventAA Meeting
LocationPhoenix, AZ
Year1982
EraPioneer Era
FellowshipAA
Duration1:11:52
RS NumberRS-G045
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Thank you for being here, and I want to thank the committee for inviting us here. We have been having quite a time for the few days that we've been here, and it's going to be one of those unforgettable experiences. I am Clarence Snyder, and I am a recovered alcoholic. And every time I get up to make a talk, frankly, I never really know what's going to come out. But something usually does, and for a long time. So make yourselves comfortable, and I'll try, of course, you're supposed to tell about how it was and what happened and how it is now. I promise you I will not give you a drunkologue. I see no point in it. But whatever comes out won't be a drunkologue, I'm sure. But I got here by a series of miracles, and I feel that our whole fellowship here, the formation of this fellowship, is a result of miracles. And my coming here, I think you'll agree after I tell you about how it happened, it couldn't be anything else but a miracle. I was married to a girl, Dorothy, you'll find her name running all through that Dr. Bob book. And she was a member of a very clannish family, and her family invented togetherness. And that family was always together in my house. And they had some unusual traditions that they followed, one of which was they had family conferences in my house, to which I was never invited. I was usually the subject under discussion. And the discussion usually ran along the lines of whether they're going to throw me out again or let me back in again. I had been in previous years in the finance business, banking and finance. And I drank myself out of that, and I wound up on the bum. And I was between jobs for several years. And my wife's family were very much concerned about this lack of work on my part, and they were trying all the best they could do to get me to change my direction. And as it happened, they were all civilians, they were not alcoholics. And they were people that think, they use their heads. Alcoholics do not think, we emote. And we only do things when we feel like it. Well, they are a thinking crew, and they got a real bright idea one…

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