Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
If I sat in a group of women in sobriety and point blank said, “I smoked crack, I sold my body for it, and now I’m living with the consequences,” they’d all probably relate. THAT right there, is the beauty of alcoholics anonymous as well as narcotics anonymous.
Forgiveness pt. II
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
I wrote a poem while I was still in a maximum security holding center about a week ago. This is the first poem I’ve written in about eight months, as well as my first positive poem.
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I’ve hurt so bad in life.
All I knew before was the knife.
I now know better ways to cope,
When before [...]
Blessings and Healing
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