Sandy B. — Thursday Night Speakers (2007)

RS-G133 · MODERN ERA · AA · 2007

Sandy B.

Thursday Night Speakers · Clearwater, FL
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SpeakerSandy B.
EventThursday Night Speakers
LocationClearwater, FL
Year2007
EraModern Era
FellowshipAA
Duration55:58
RS NumberRS-G133
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Thank you very much, Jim, and hi everybody. My name is Sandy Beach, and I'm an alcoholic. I really enjoy coming over here. You've got a lot of spirit in this group, and it's just fun, which is what AA is supposed to be. Let's see, I got sober on Pearl Harbor Day, 1964, up in Washington, D.C., and I had the same sponsor for 42 years, 2 months, and 2 weeks. He passed away this year, and his name was Bill Terwilliger. Ralph knew him. I mention his name because I figured from the time he passed through the end of the year, I'm just going to mention his name, because he was so important to me. As he was dying, we got to visit a couple times. He's up in Virginia. It wasn't sad, it was we were just celebrating the run that we had together. If any of you get connected like that in this program, and you have that sharing of sobriety with its ups and downs, and you're still connected, it's a gift. It's just the nicest feeling in the world. We didn't lose anything. We had all that that we had together, and it's still a very strong memory. My hat's off to my buddy Bill. I grew up in New Haven, Connecticut in the 30s. I'd say the world was different than it is now. I was just thinking back on some of them. One of them is nobody locked their house. I don't think my mother, it was probably the 70s when it started getting dangerous, or 60s, whatever it was. He couldn't find a key. He had to get a locksmith to come around and put a lock on that had a key. I remember if you forgot something, the housewife, the mother of the house, would get another neighborhood kid and say, Would you go home and get my watch? It's on my bureau. He would go get the watch and bring it back. He wasn't going to take anything. It was really different in that sense that you felt much more comfortable. My father graduated from school, became an engineer. Unfortunately, he graduated in 1928. We all know what happened in 1929. Nobody had a job. He was building a bridge up in New York State. The company he was working for went out of business. He really had…

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