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I'm not doing this project to necessarily make new longterm friends, or go have a drink with these people. Nor is it to pass any judgements on ones life. My goal is to simply meet interesting, and maybe not so interesting strangers who I wouldve never taken the time to talk to otherwise. One that may differ, or perhaps relate to my own life. So many times, you walk past someone, and they wont even raise their head in the slightest to say hello. I'll never understand why. The challenge to myself is not only to surpass that simple hello with one person a day, but to convince them to look into my lens and tell me something about themselves. My name is Amanda Surkin, and this is my journey of meeting 100 new faces. Take the time to listen, you may learn something :)

Saturday, April 28, 2012

stranger #76

Meet Tom G.


"AA is probably the best thing that has happened to me. Nothing deserves a drink. I'll have one year sober on May 4th. The reason that I got sober is because I wanted to stop the shakes. They were very noticeable to other people, and it was embarrassing. I got my yearly appraisal from work and my manager told me to sign the form, and I couldn't sign my name. It was all scribble. For people who are suffering from addiction, and that goes for drugs and alcohol, seek AA. One of the best thing's I've heard in AA is G.O.D meaning gift of desperation." - Tom
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