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Old 08-25-2010, 04:53 PM
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My first sponsor
Sponsors come in various shapes and sizes. Here's an anecdote about my first.
I was in the rehab and I looked at the bulletin board one day and it said we all had to get a sponsor. At the AA meeting that evening I approached a nice looking guy and asked him if he would sponsor me. He graciously accepted and an evening or so later took me to a meeting. He was a commercial airplane pilot and the meeting was in one of the hangers at the local airport. There were a lot of pilots there and many of then had served in the navy. As the meeting went on they took to reminiscing about the drinking they had done in the navy and how exciting and challenging it was to try to land on an aircraft carrier at night with a few drinks under their belt! The ship pitching and tossing, the wind blowing sideways across the deck, maybe a little fog... They even said they had made some movies of that.
Talk about DUI's! Wow! Was this for real or were they bs-ing the "new guy"?

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