Jim appears to be unusually distressed at the start of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. His sponsor pushes him to speak that evening, the first time he has done so in seven months, and he does so-and then promptly exits the group. As Jim wanders the night, looking for some solace in his old haunts, bars, and parks where he used to buy drugs, the meeting continues, and we hear the stories of survivors and addicts - some, like Louis, who claim to have wandered in looking for choir practice and who do not identify as alcoholics, and others, like Joseph, whose drinking almost caused the death of his child - as they talk about their lives at the meeting.
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Jim appears to be unusually distressed at the start of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. His sponsor pushes him to speak that evening, the first time he has done so in seven months, and he does so-and then promptly exits the group. As Jim wanders the night, looking for some solace in his old haunts, bars, and parks where he used to buy drugs, the meeting continues, and we hear the stories of survivors and addicts - some, like Louis, who claim to have wandered in looking for choir practice and who do not identify as alcoholics, and others, like Joseph, whose drinking almost caused the death of his child - as they talk about their lives at the meeting.
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