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		<title>Some must die that others may live.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Some must die so that others may live” – a phrase meaning it is good that some people drink themselves to death, as this helps scare the shit out of those considering leaving AA. I&#8217;ve never had so many people in my life die as I have had since I came to AA, not counting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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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>Say it ain’t so, Joe.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Robert&#8217;s sponsor told him early on that he can say anything he wants to in a meeting, anything at all, so long as it&#8217;s honest. I guess my pride is intact on some level or something because I don&#8217;t do that, at least not at meeting level. I share honestly, mind you. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Feel So Sleezy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember these? High school gym shorts from the 1980&#8242;s. Wow. At the time I thought they were pretty hot, at least on certain guys. You had to have pretty great legs to pul[ this look off, but there were always a couple of guys in gym class who fit the bill. I think the poly-knit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is the Devil?</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/who-is-the-devil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get to see my sister often; usually at family events with our dad. She lives in Alaska with her daughter and husband. She has maintained a close relationship with our dad over the years, and I have only recently restored that relationship. Stephanie and I, the two oldest of four siblings, most closely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Score Cards Read Zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics who have any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their irrationality, can bear to face it. Some will be willing to term themselves &#8220;problem drinkers,&#8221; but cannot endure the suggestion that they are in fact mentally ill. &#8220;Sanity&#8221; is defined as &#8220;soundness of mind.&#8221; Yet no alcoholic, soberly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sideways</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.&#8221; - Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 58 That pretty much describes me at any given point in my history; emotionally and mentally &#8216;disordered&#8217;, gravely. I have at various times been diagnosed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Points</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/turning-points/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[3rd Step]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every beginning is an ending and every ending a beginning; a turning point. They are passages through which, if we are willing, we may pass into a new and better life.&#8221; - Chris M. Some turning points are big, obviously, like the one I came to a year ago when I could not go on. [...]]]></description>
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