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Interview with a 75-Year-Old Sober Person: Ray Cocks

"I feel the person I was is someone I know intimately but isn’t me now. The monster lies dormant, though, and could be very easily awakened."

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Today, we have another "Ask a Sober Oldster" round with colorful 75-year-old military veteran Ray Cocks who has gifted us this quote:

One of my favorite acronyms and one of the first I heard was for the word SOBER: Son Of a Bitch, Everything's Real. That sums up how I had to begin coming to terms with things I avoided, unconscious that I'd been medicatin…

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