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I Stole a Hearse Then Rode a Bus for 8 Months to Get My Life Back - AA Speaker - Vince Y.

Vince spent three and a half years sober in AA without taking a single step, lost his medical license stealing Demerol, and ended up in an $11-a-week room before a prayer on his knees and a sponsor with an impossible bus route gave him his life back. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️ Sober-Sunrise.com Vince came from a privileged Irish Catholic family in New Jersey, sailed through school on brains alone, and destroyed every opportunity he touched — four Jesuit prep schools, an Ivy League degree he walked away from, a Navy commission he tanked, and a brand-new medical career he blew up by stealing narcotics from his own emergency room. After his first AA meeting in 1965, he stayed sober for three and a half years without taking a single step and watched himself get sicker while everyone around him got better. The bottom finally came in a series of disasters so absurd they sound like fiction — fired from a drill press job, living above a casket room, stealing a hearse, and driving the wrong way down Pacific Coast Highway in a blackout. Sober again and living in an $11-a-week room in Costa Mesa, Vince got on his knees one night and said the only prayer he had. A sponsor put him on a bus up Wilshire Boulevard every day for eight months with nothing but an eight-dollar allowance and a story to tell, and on the day he finally gave up, he ran into the one man who could give him his career back. Today Vince carries a recovery built on the steps he once dismissed and a marriage he says he loves more than life itself. Vince Y. from Upland, CA at Orange County AA Convention, Costa Mesa, CA - March 3rd 2002 Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

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