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Old 10-25-2013, 12:50 PM
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Boleo
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Originally Posted by keithj View Post
I really didn't like the guy much (although he did become and remains one of my closest friends today), didn't agree with a lot of what I heard from him, and didn't like his self-righteous attitude and BB thumping. But, it was clear that he knew how to take a hopeless dude like me through the Steps. That was all that mattered at that time.
This sounds to me like a perfect 1 - 9 step sponsor. The sponsor who ended up helping me the most was the one that I liked the least.


However, when it came time to do steps 10 - 12, I needed a sponsor that I could talk to for long periods of time without resentments getting in the way.
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