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echo: 12_steps
to: MATRIKA
from: LEO MINKIEWICZ
date: 1997-03-18 02:26:00
subject: Re: recovery 1/2

M> re - new words for the Barney song, etc - my brother in law does too, 
M> he goes with "I hate you, you hate me, we're a dysfunctional family" 
M> (just about covers it over there - grin)   I have a reason to hate 
M> Barney - I am a recovering incest survivor also and I don't trust any 
M> t.v. program for KIDS that tells a kid that if someone smiles at you, 
M> that means they are a nice person.  I don't THINK so.  
M> .
M> Hmmm, selling bike to get sober?  I thought I read the only requirement
M> for membership was a desire to stop drinking?   In fact in our area 
M> there is an older lady - sixty something - who used to be a 
M> real-down-and-outer type, almost became a bag lady, came very close.
M> She always wanted a bike and in early sobriety, she hung on to that.
M> She cleaned up her act.  She got a job at a local detox.  And she now 
M> rides all over town on a harley.  How this little woman gets on that 
M> big bike is an amazing feat to see, in my opinion.  But she did it.
M> And she says that in the beginning saving the money for it helped her 
M> choose not to drink on a few rough days.   So whoever told you that you
M> can't stay sober and keep riding is full of something, well, stinky - 
M> maybe even jealousy. (GRIN)
yep same words and there are fay when getting out in the wind and just 
utting
though some curves on one of the back roads just clears my head of all the 
stinky thinking
Still Sober
Leo
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