Ben Bradley, peeking back into the echo after a long absence, nearly
fell out of his chair when he read this by Harriet Levy, quoted by Tim
Dill and others:
 
 HL> Small understatement.  These days I feel like I'm in the middle of
 HL> living a miracle.
              ^^^^^^^
 
   Harriet! You've Changed!
 
   Quoting a conversation between Pat Winstanley and Harriet Levy:
 
 HL> Good Morning, Pat!
 
 PW> Reading messages from you over the past week or two it's clear
 PW> something has changed. What?
 
 HL> Many, many things.  I'm not sure how long it's been since you've been
 HL> here, but.....
 HL> About a year and a half ago, I finished school, got licensed as a
 
   Probably somewhere around that time we had a couple of phone
conversations. The following paragraph brings me up to date:
 
 HL> massage therapist, left my husband of 14 years, got my own apartment,
 HL> ... [some other stuff that I hadn't heard about not quoted]
 HL> someone (who I met right here, BTW) came into my life.  Oh, and I still
 HL> didn't drink.
 
    What a coincidence! I didn't drink either! It's amazing how much
not taking the first drink contributes to keeping one sober.
 
 HL> That's the abreviated version.  So where I am now is fairly successful
 HL> running my own business, except for the day or two per week that I'm
 HL> still working for someone else, involved in a long-distance relationship
 HL> that is driving m* Origin: Communication Specialties, NYC * (212) 
645-8673 (1:27
 HL> 8/307)
 
   This is where my new high-speed modem lost it's cookies talking to my
computer, and dropped some characters...and just as it was getting
interesting, too.  ;-)  [for those interested in the gory technical
details, a cable with hardware-handshake lines fixed it]
   Regardless, I got the jist of how your day-to-day life has changed.
My day-to-day life has also changed - last summer I got a high-paying
engineering contract position with a large and respectable company.
That in itself is quite a change  - quite a few changes, actually -
from previous career positions, as well as periods of under- and
unemployment.
   Back to my original quote, when I knew you here a couple of years
ago, you weren't using the 'M' word - and now it appears you do.
This kind of change isn't like changing jobs/careers or getting
divorced (and I don't mean to belittle these changes), but it's more
a 'paradigm shift' - an internal change. And staying in the program
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