421 days sober; "almost twenty-nine"; Geoffrey Day as "valuable teacher"

texture · ~Nov YDAU

• When: a November YDAU morning (after a Dream-Duty all-nighter plus Shattuck janitoring)
• What: Anchor datum for the sobriety count: on this Nov YDAU morning Gately is "completely Substance-free for 421 days today" and "almost twenty-nine and sober and just huge," still feeling "a terrible sense of loss, narcotics-wise, in the A.M." Counselor Eugenio "Gene M." Martinez; sponsor Ferocious Francis G. He's practicing patience/tolerance on new resident Geoffrey Day, whom Pat and his sponsor frame as a "valuable teacher." 421 days back from ~Nov YDAU dates his sober date to ~Sept YDPAH.