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	<title>The Last Chance Texaco &#187; Perseverance</title>
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	<description>Tales of Recovery from Crystal Meth Addiction</description>
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		<title>Promptly Admiting When I&#8217;m Wrong</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/perseverance-principles/promptly-admiting-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10th Step]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear people in meetings all the time say how they do a written 10th step every night.  Honestly, I cannot imagine doing that.  It&#8217;s hard enough to find time to do everything else that needs to be done.  But, written or not, I do regularly look back on my day, or my recent past, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Beating Myself Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resentment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shortcomings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will be an end to this, right?  I&#8217;m still beating myself up for having been blind to, or simply ignored, all of the red flags that went up with The Bullet That I Dodged.  They were there in front of me all the time, from the very first time we met, and somehow I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some days just crap on you.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/acceptance/some-days-just-crap-on-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resentment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, for example.  After an hour of being yelled at by an authority figure who didn&#8217;t know what she was talking about and who was under the false assumption that what someone worthless told her was true, I learned that earlier today my sister tried to kill herself. By slashing her own throat. And there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Page is Intentionally Left Blank and Other Self Contradictory Stuff</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/perseverance-principles/this-page-is-intentionally-left-blank-and-other-self-contradictory-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It should have become clear to me a long time ago.  Perhaps it was and I simply hadn&#8217;t the willingness to do something about it, but it is clear now that I can benefit from therapy.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll make any significant gains in becoming happy without professional help.  So in addition to starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 5 (plus 1000)</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/day-5-plus-1000/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/day-5-plus-1000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ephemera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe it. Day 1000 passed without my noticing it. I was in Las Vegas at the time visiting my mom and dad. I spent the day hanging out with them, my great-uncle and his new wife and daughter, my aunt and two of my cousins. Watched some football. Took a nap. I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhausted . . . again.  Naturally.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/perseverance-principles/exhausted-again-naturally/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/perseverance-principles/exhausted-again-naturally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re out. They&#8217;re back in. They&#8217;re out. They&#8217;re back in. It&#8217;s exhausting. I&#8217;m afraid I have a growing prejudice against those that seem to want it but aren&#8217;t willing to ride out the discomfort in order to achieve long term sobriety. Not that I can claim anything like long term sobriety for myself yet, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queers &amp; Weirdos</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/queers-weirdos/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/queers-weirdos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We don&#8217;t want anybody up here. We just tell people this place is nothing but a bunch of queers and weirdos,&#8221; my sponsor told me.  There is a kernel of truth in it, of course, but there is a sweetness about the place and the people there that is hard to describe. I exaggerated about [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Plain English</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/in-plain-english/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/in-plain-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open-Mindedness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I bought a book the other day, right after I vomited my insanity here; Mindfulness in Plain English.  And I&#8217;m encouraged because I finally found a definition of &#8216;faith&#8217; that I can work with.  No GrandWizardMagicalSantaClaus required.  What a relief.  I have some nice, plainly written instructions to make a beginning, and then there are [...]]]></description>
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