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		<title>It&#8217;s just like riding a bicycle</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/shortcomings/resentment-shortcomings/riding-bicycle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twelve miles southeast of Boise is a dam on the Boise River called the Lucky Peak Dam.  In addition to providing we Boiseans with recreational opportunities, the dam also produces a modest amount of electrical power and helps control flooding in our city.  Riding a bicycle home from the dam is a really beautiful journey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Years Sober</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/4-years-sober-crystal-meth-addict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe its been four years already?  Four years from the last time I had the compulsion to use.  Before that, in spite of my desire not to, the thought of living without crystal meth was impossible for me to imagine. Like many others, I tried to get sober on a number of occasions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Home</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/early-recovery/acceptance/coming-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[9th Step]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcoholism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom completed her treatment and came home from Minnesota last night, and in spite of walking into a month of mail, an imminent divorce, and more, she seemed OK.  It was very late in the evening, and I could see as she went through the mail that she was becoming more and more distressed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another moment of clarity</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/moment-clarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow.  Here we are 4 years after the day I first saw myself clearly enough, and was in enough pain, to do something about my addiction, and my life today bears almost no resemblance to the life I had before.  I am still me, obviously, with all the same flaws and all the same quirks.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone offered me pot the other day.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone who knows me; who knows me well.  Someone who has seen the progression of my addiction from its very beginning.  Someone who purports to be sober. I couldn&#8217;t believe it.  The other thing I couldn&#8217;t believe is how appealing it sounded.  But I&#8217;ve been down that road before and I wasn&#8217;t about to take [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/early-recovery/acceptance/still-beating-myself-up/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/early-recovery/acceptance/still-beating-myself-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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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/early-recovery/acceptance/some-days-just-crap-on-you/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/early-recovery/acceptance/some-days-just-crap-on-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></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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