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Joelle visits Gately: Abiding (p. 856)

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Gately racks his RAM for which fucking night St. Columbkill’s is. […] Trying to give him a little bit of a meeting, Gately realizes, with a slight tight smile of disbelief that he can’t dredge up a mental meeting schedule so he’ll know what day this is.

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A sober addict's week is a lattice of meeting nights, and Gately tries to use the schedule as a calendar. He can't. The fever has cost him not just days but the retrieval system he'd use to count them — memory failure measured in AA's own units.

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