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		<title>Service and Self Sacrifice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking at a friend&#8217;s Facebook page, admiring a picture of her and someone&#8217;s baby, when I noticed a quote on the sidebar; something about love from Dostoevsky’s, &#8220;The Brothers Karamazov&#8221;.  Having just come from a meeting where the topic was Love and knowing how way leads to way I followed the trail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing On the Firing Line of Recovery at the Allumbaugh House Detox Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Most of the people in a county detox center have made multiple attempts at getting sober.  Most, if not all of them have been to meetings before; sometimes hundreds of them.  I went to hundreds of meetings before I ever got sober. ]]></description>
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		<title>How deep is your love?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s occurred to me a couple of times recently that as a class, we addicts are often born with an unusual capacity to love and very little facility for it.  &#8221;We couldn&#8217;t seem to be of real help to other people,&#8221; could well be understood as, &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t seem to express our love to other [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Back from the dead</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/back-from-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am really feeling grateful for my life today.  And I&#8217;m feeling especially grateful for the time that I spent with my sponsor up in Atlanta and everything that has followed. Friday night I got to take one of my favorite people, Jill, the friend who let me detox at her house, out for dinner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoke Free Day 16 and Other Matters of Living in Recovery</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/shortcomings/resentment-shortcomings/smoke-free-day-16-and-other-matters-of-living-in-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early recovery from smoking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resentment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roommates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sponsorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having this internal argument about smoking cessation with nicotine replacement therapy.Â  Namely, in quitting smoking I&#8217;m really quitting 2 different addictions; smoking addiction and nicotine addiction. I have picked up a cigarette only twice in the last 16 days, and that has been made rather easy by the fact that my nicotine addiction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 3 &#8211; &#8220;Just one more day.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[early recovery from smoking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joe hasn&#8217;t been home in 3 days now, but he&#8217;s been seen and he&#8217;s terrible.Â  He&#8217;s every horrible thing you can imagine about someone who has relapsed on heroin (or other heavy narcotics).Â  His phone is dead so he can&#8217;t call anyone.Â  Jake gave him my number but he refuses to call because he&#8217;s still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Down Jell-O</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/early-recovery/acceptance/keeping-down-jell-o/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Integrity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thelastchancetexaco.com/?p=1175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve ever been so sick and not been hospitalized.  Without health insurance and without any savings I elected to just ride it out, which, in retrospect, was probably a bad idea.  I haven&#8217;t had solid food since Monday, but I am finally keeping fluids down and the exhausting cycle of fevers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Million Miracles</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/million-miracles-aa-birthday/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/million-miracles-aa-birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ephemera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel kind of petty for making a fuss over my upcoming AA birthday.Â  Two years is nothing.Â  I went Saturday to the celebration of someone&#8217;s quinquagenary in recovery.Â  Fifty years is a whole lot of &#8220;one day at a time&#8221;.Â  If you&#8217;ve eveer been afraid that no one will show up at your funeral, [...]]]></description>
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