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...ritual therapy of an AA meeting (hence the title). Indulging in a sort of self-forgetting one might expect of someone with a blacked-out past, Joe throws himself into what he calls his family: coaching the local soccer team, a sorry lot of unemployables. Chance encounters and friend Liam lead Joe's path to intersect with social worker Sarah (Louise Goodall), who meets regularly with Liam, his wife and his "wean" (that's "child"; derived from "wee 'un"). Joe helps wallpaper Sarah's house and eventually summons courage to ask her out; relationship follows...
...occasional blinding sunburst)--stars as itself, showing off its social welfare services and those scrappy lower orders who compose both Joe's soccer team and, supplied with worse lines and hence less likable, the local hoodlums. Since Joe practices a strong allegiance to his "family," which includes Liam, and since former addict Liam and addict-at-large Liam's wife play fast and lose with debts to said hoodlums' boss, it's clear that too-willing-to-help Joe could soon get pulled down into the muck again. Once in the muck, he might find drink not far behind...
With both teams skating four aside, all theplayers except Adams were bunched on the left sideof the ice in the neutral zone. Sophomoredefenseman Liam McCarthy hit Adams with across-ice pass and the captain hurried the puck into the zone, stopping in the right face-off circleand blasting it by Stathos...
...Liam gave me a great pass," Adams said. "Ijust closed my eyes, teed it up and hoped for thebest...
...Liam's seen a lot more ice time lately andhe's deserved it," Tomassoni said. "He's beenplaying very, very well...