I had the most unexpected experience on Thursday.  Back when I was in early sobriety I absolutely despised this woman.  I was going to stop hanging around with my friends because she always showed up.  My best friend told me to let it go; that she’d move or die or I’d become friends with her.  I grumbled but stuck around.  The woman moved about 3 years after that and I was ecstatic.

Last summer she moved back and I was displeased.  I was cordial with her but still carried my grudge.  She was totally oblivious, as always, and was happy to see me.  I managed to avoid her until earlier this week.  I told her about the subject of my WYFP last week because I just had to say it out loud.  After that I couldn’t get away from her.  She tagged along after me and kept trying to get me to hang out with her new friends.  I lacked the energy to avoid her.

On Thursday I was with her new group of friends.  She yapped a lot, as usual, and I was annoyed yet again.  About an hour later she stood up and said, "I have to do something."  I thought, here we go she has to be in the limelight all of the time.

She started talking about our old group of friends, how tight I was with my best friend, and how happy she had been when we were all together.  Then she mentioned things going on in my life over the past year and said that she wanted me to be connected with this new group of friends so she was giving me a medallion to signify my sober anniversary that day.  I started to cry my eyes out while she was talking because I was so incredibly moved.

Then I had to call one of our other old crew and share the story.  We were in hysterics saying how of all the people in the world to give me my medallion she was the last one anyone would have predicted.  By the time the giggles died down I said, "I think that’s what made it so moving for me, because it came from the unlikeliest place."