100 Love Letters I'll Never Send (Crossing the line) (c) 2018

Previously: Who believes in second chances right? Our hero gets the girl. They're starting off pretty strong. After she puts her thang on him he goes to a temporary job agency. The impossible happens. He gets a temp job at the place where he used to work, Morningside Investments.

                                                 

I'm a block away. The sun rays are blinding. I've made this drive before. I know as I get closer the Morningside Investments building will block the sun rays.

"Things are going well," I defensively answer my phone; ready to handle whatever negativity he, my AA sponsor, would try to trespass my mind with.

"You cross that line yet?" He replies so coyly.

"What?"

"The line between drinking and life being unmanageable." ...

...a few minutes later I walk through the spinning door. I remembered what it was like when I first got a job here. I worked on the top floor. I'll be on the bottom floor, probably, this time. Back when I first started I was willing to do so much to get ahead to be someone successful.

First step back in Mrs. Stephenson is the first person I see.

"Welcome back______________. Follow me."

Then it occurred to me that I didn't remember anything my sponsor told me after the 'You cross that line yet?'

"Hello, I'm Mr. Hyde. This is Tyrone. He'll be showing you what you'll be doing. You know you're work responsibilities."

I follow Tyrone to the back of the mail room. There's a huge pile of paperwork. I spend the day filling envelopes with flyers, and filling envelopes with balance information for clients. All along the while Tyrone is filling me in on all the gossip. About the only thing I remembered of that was when he told me about how Mr. Hyde started here twenty years ago without even having a high school diploma.

6:30 pm Couples in Recovery Meeting:

He started speaking about page 69 in the Alcoholics Anonymous book. "We must ask God to shape our ideals of sex and I had to learn the hard way that..."