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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[Perseverance]]></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>Little Pink Houses &#8211; and all I really did, I think, was stay sober</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 29th, 2007 is was 10 months and some days sober and in training for a job at McDonald&#8217;s; a job which, it turns out, I was barely capable of doing, my brain still healing from the years and years of crystal meth I did. Ultimately I wasn&#8217;t even able to keep that job.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 9th Step Observation</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/justice-principles/9th-step-observation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9th Step]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My credit score must be improving.  I&#8217;m getting more and better junk mail.  Here&#8217;s to clearing away some wreckage.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweeping</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/justice-principles/sweeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9th Step]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Simply tell him that we will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past. We are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do so, never trying to tell him what he should do. His faults [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atonement</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/justice-principles/atonement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9th Step]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m totally double dipping today. Sorry. I spaced it that today is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. I&#8217;m not Jewish, but I am fascinated by their faith, their culture, and their traditions. And this day is particularly important in the Jewish faith and it speaks to me in terms that I relate to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stark Raving Sober</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/stark-raving-sober/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12th Step]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brotherly Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, thank God for the steps! I wouldn&#8217;t be able to tell this story without them. I wouldn&#8217;t because I would be trapped in the story; sucked in to the familiar familial drama of the tree from which this nut fell. Last Friday night I had dinner with my sister and her two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One More Round for Experience</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/one-more-round-for-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/one-more-round-for-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11th Step]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[9th Step]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How could we make amends? So it&#8217;s one more round for experience And I&#8217;m on the road again And it&#8217;s going to take some time this time. -Carole King I am so relieved to finally have this chapter over with. Well, this part anyway. My relationship with the Department of Corrections is far from over, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing the Difficult</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/choosing-the-difficult/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/choosing-the-difficult/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9th Step]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crystal Meth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was originally published Feb. 10, 2008 and was taken down pending adjudication of another case. Now that has been done and I am restoring the post. To choose what is difficult all one&#8217;s days, as if it were easy, that is faith. W. H. Auden They tell me I seemed relaxed; that I [...]]]></description>
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