The Quiz He Gave His Sponsor to See if He Was Qualified – Jack K.
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Hollywood, 5:30 a.m. A kick-out from the sheriff's station after totaling twelve cars and staring at green lights that weren't the right shade of green. Jack K. describes a life of being lonely, separate, different, angry, and afraid—a state he’d occupied since age four. He recalls the wreckage: a wife who forwarded his mail to a beer bar as a cruel joke, and children who packed his suitcase and told him to get the hell out. He was an intellectual who used his education as a shield for self-loathing, once co-founding a Black Student Union just to blow up an administration building.
The turning point came not from a desire to stop drinking, but from a realization on page 21 of the Big Book that he was "insanely drunk." Under the guidance of a sponsor who taught him that resentment is "re-feeling old injury," Jack moved from merely not drinking to living sober. He traded a variety of experiences with women for a variety of experiences with one woman, eventually earning a medallion th...
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