Whoops, sorry Robby - you and I must have been posting at the exact same moments!
BTW, I've often thought / wondered: someone like your good self (and others I've met in AA / on SR and elsewhere) really did dodge quite a few bullets by getting sober at 24. So young! I venture forth - and not as a rationalisation, but just observation - that it sure as hell feels a damn sight harder when doing it in your late 50s.