Aunt Bessie will bring seven pies for Thanksgiving. And her feelings will be hurt if you don’t try several. Grandmother doesn’t believe in moderation on special days and will not rest until you’ve eaten plenty of calories for two weeks on […]
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Our Family of Choice
We’re not a family legally. We have mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, spouses, children, cousins and such. A family of origin, a nuclear family, am extended family…they’re important but sometimes issues there have caused pain…through abuse, bad habits, pressure to conform […]
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True Comfort
Now true comfort for me is waking up with that clean, happy feeling, knowing I was abstinent the day before. True comfort is: Hearing the birds sing Breathing the sweet breath of life Thrilling to the beauty of nature Loving […]
Continue reading »Thank You for Believing in Me.
Thank you for not judging g promise in me, for not taking your cues from me, seeing the miserable, lonely wretch I knew. Thank you for seeing me in terms of weight, dress size, for the dangling flap below my […]
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