I have been reading your posts for some time now, and realized that you and i 
share a very common background in recovery.  I too, came from a very abusive, 
and dysfunctional family system.  I used other substances to cope with my 
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as a result of the lifestyle which I lived.  I have as you are aware 9 yrs 11 
months of Sobriety form the program of AA and 3+ years of recovery from my
co-dependency, thanks to CoDA.   Is the SID_CoDA echo in FidoNet?  If it is 
I'll have My sysop request it.  By the way if you wish to discuss CODA 
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topics with me outside of this Echo My E-Mail address is Cyrax6@juno.com or 
Cyrax@1:268/442.  I wish that more people would realize in this and the other 
recovery echoes that if you change the words of the 12 Steps you don't 
necessarily change the principles that they represent.  This constant 
bickering is nerve racking.  Especially, when you are asked, as in my case, 
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be a voice of reason.
Look forward to conversing more
Your's in Unity and Recovery
Edward S.
It doesn't matter how the watch works, just what time it is.
--- GEcho 1.00
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