At the first meeting you told me, “Welcome home!” You didn’t ask what I weighed must less lead me to scales. You asked if I was a hugger then you did, hugged me even though I stank and you couldn’t […]
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Panache
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But the most compelling part of A.A., the part that made me want to try this sober thing, was the laughter, the pure joy of the laughter that I heard only from sober alcoholics. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Page […]
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Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks […]
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All my life I’ve been serially obsessive. Video games, a recurring theme since the original Mario Brothers in the early eighties. Knitting… but so tightly none of the sweaters fit, counted cross stitch, oil painting, genealogy, medieval history, the history […]
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