and Hello Turtlebones!Well .. . . . well . . . and oh well! John Z had been a very promising prospect but he has not returning my calls for several days now. He did drink. I had taken him to Gosnold, a local windup joint, for their very decent detox facility and instructed John to call me the night before his release and to stay at least 72 four days. He didn't call. Instead he left against medical advice and took a bus home. Said he didn't want to "inconvenience" me by sticking with 'the plan' and calling me. Complete bullshit of course. Immediately upon his arrival home he hit a bottle of vodka the way a lost man out a desert hits a tin ladle of well water after he is rescued. The bus home was not a simple ride home. It was his rescue from the desert.
I say him yesterday morning walking along the highway to his job a mile away and tried to call him but he never picked up.
No matter. I will be bringing this Reality Blog up to0 date and it will include what actually led ep to Johns dropping out of recovery. Stay tuned over the next week or so. For now, no matter . . .
. . . . .. I received a call three days ago from Barry F. -- AKA "Turtlebones". I met Turtlbones - the name I will explain later on - at a windup joint run by a service called Highpoint. They run the TSS facility in New Bedford, MA , home of Moby Dick and Bill W's first drunk - tasty little number called the Bronx Cocktail - if you can believe it. What is a Bronx cocktail you
ask? its a simple little concoction that is 
nothing more than a perfect martini with added orange juice. In the summer of 1917 2nd Lieutenant Bill Wilson is twenty two years old in the coast artillery unit located at Fort Rodman, Massachusetts.Today it is a the Fort Rodman Military Reservation and marine campus of the University of Massachusetts. I had the honer of doing an AA History talk there at the UMASS campus several years ago. At the time I had not realized that this was where Bill was stationed - I mean I knew he was stationed there but I was not told that "there" was were we were when I was booked to talk - when I was here - if you get my drift.
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