The first-year sober cake — Gately cries before non-relatives for the first time

pivotal · September Sunday, YDAU

• When: "the September Sunday that marked his first year sober" (YDAU)
• What: On the September Sunday marking his first year sober, Ferocious Francis and the White Flaggers presented Gately a faultlessly baked one-candle cake, and "Don Gately had cried in front of nonrelatives for the first time in his life" (he denies it, blaming candle-fumes).