Giving up alcohol was like giving up a best friend. ~ E.H.’s father-in-law

Alcohol has never tugged at me…
but food does, like alcohol does
to the potential members
of Alcoholics Anonymous!
In fact I’ve been known to say
I didn’t have real friends.
In the place of friends
I substituted my addiction
to sugar and flour
in almost any combination,
the higher the percentage of sugar
with the addition of oil as enhancement
the more satisfied, the more mollified,
the more comforted I became.
I know now I have real friends,
people who share my history with food
or whose struggles with other addictions
ring true!
I’m through with my affinity
for food to fill the interstices of my soul!
I choose people, true friends,
soulmates as my true friends for life!