re - putting a little hope back into your life - thank you for saying 
that.  I needed to hear it because it reminded me of one of my earliest
experiences with 12 step recovery fellowships, years before I got 
sober, in 1979 or 1980.  The first meeting I ever went to - not AA, but
another  fellowship - I heard a woman who had a life like mine talking 
about how she had been 11 years now in a new life.  For her, this also 
included sobriety, as she was also a recovering alcoholic.  But her 
story gave me hope to keep getting out of bed every day, during a hard 
period of my life, and to begin the 12 step journey - which, with 
another detoour or two, eventually landed me in the RIGHT program for 
me, AA, and got me sober.  Hope was where it began for me, so I 
certainly can't lose hold of it now, can I?  Thanks for reminding me of
this.
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--- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #66
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