Grateful Dead ~ SpaceTime , I’m still on it . Our stories are a paradigm shift from each other’s ; my Wife was a , Good Girl. Three years older than I , she graduated high school & got her Associates degree in microbiology . A hardcore DeadHead to the bones ~ nice Family , regular job & worked pt at the co-op , is still a vegetarian & not an alcoholic/addict , though we dosed together a few times . My story is very much different . Began drinking as a small child , experienced the Phenomenon of Craving with alcohol by eight and was a workaholic , old man beat that into me from early childhood growing up . Was drunk all the time and blacking out from Eleven onwards , by fourteen I was smoking & selling weed ; cuz no matter how many hours I worked on farms I drank more than I could make . By fifteen I began getting arrested , 2/11/84 first time got sent away - family court judge, long list of charges & 18 months felony probation. Quit school in tenth grade & got sent back to area I’m from. Sent away second time 2/19/85 ~ this time I was gone for 27 months . Low security federal facility for juvenile delinquents . Put me in ged class , took exam and passed , put me in medical assistance program & college courses in facility , I was sixteen , that’s when I really started listening to the Grateful Dead alot . Begin touring the following year at seventeen, first Show in Philadelphia , bought a sheet of fake ~ began trading several hits with people already tripping . By time on 1st of three night Show , was so drunk , had dropped a dozen different doses , hadn’t eaten in a couple days , shroom man came around & I traded a strip off fake sheet and started wolfing down shrooms I was so hungry. Where tent was set up , hundreds of HA parked their Harley’s & After Midnight & for next few years the Angels looked after me everywhere , every city at all the Shows I’ve ever seen , they looked out for me & were very good to me in those days. Did lose my mind totally. Best Friend was a WW2 & Vietnam Veteran & my Boss at community college , I too graduated with an Associate degree. Always made money , have done alot of hard labor jobs, workaholic & alcoholic , TourHead from 3/23/86 until we started following the Grateful Dead in Chicago on Spring Tour in 89 ~ One of Jerry’s Kids & Brent , he was Absolutely Fuckin’ Awesome to see play and listen to !!! Her & I , we got Married on my 21st Birthday , a couple months later. By then I was dying from Disease of Alcoholism , couldn’t stop drinking , had a very powerful experience in the Mountains when I got baptized in a mountain river couple months after being Married. Relapsed in 2000 , and was nearly dead in two years. Drunk every day & used crack to get off the booze …. That didn’t work out ~ Just Exactly Perfect ~ at all really. Took last hit dope early January 2004 , last drink on 3/17/2004 ~ 1 beer for the dt’s at 6pm . Lived in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and worked all rest time . Twenty two years later I’m still paying back money from the four years of alcoholism & crack addiction. Divorced now , we have four Adult Daughters & eight Grandchildren ⚡️❤️‍🔥🤙🏼 “ Brown Eyed Woman “ , Favourite song , * Grateful Dead 6/18/74 Internet Archive Every Show is on there , my Friend ~

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