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On ending things.

Monday, November 8, 2010

A long time ago, I read a message written on a scrap piece of paper I found in a library book that said, “You don’t know how much you love someone until you’re faced with losing them”. Recently, I lost that someone. For the first time since our turbulent relationship started, I found myself at [...]

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High Fidelity

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

I’ve been away for far too long. Imagine what happens in two months. A pregnancy scare, ‘scare’ being the key word. The phone call to an ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend, that I could dramatically state I’ve been chasing through other people for the last two years. Don’t get excited; he didn’t answer the phone nor did [...]

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Facing little progress, and definitely not perfection.

Friday, July 23, 2010

I’ve come here, shamefully, to be redeemed. I have been distracted, I have been preoccupied, I have been exhausted. I have been doing everything but my program, everything but my recovery. I know very well how it works: I work my program of recovery in AA and CA, the twelve steps to sobriety, and the [...]

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