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To: Opinionated Blowhard
back story on this guy is that he was engaging in drug use and criminal activity right up until the time he was “discovered.”

I agree. The line about 2 years sober was delivered TOO convincingly. I was once a cocaine smoker myself (freebase) and I know the lifestyle. I am one of the lucky ones, who finally got out with the help of HP and 12 Steps.

27 posted on 01/25/2011 8:26:45 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Lazamataz

I used to be addicted to pistachio nuts but I quit my habit by weening myself off it with the nut version of methadone-—cashew nuts.


31 posted on 01/25/2011 8:28:49 AM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: Lazamataz

What is HP?


33 posted on 01/25/2011 8:29:10 AM PST by Nickname
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To: Lazamataz; Puppage

When I first got sober we had a guy in and out of meetings who was a lot like Ted...I promptly told my sponsor we should do this or that for him (I knew EVERYTHING back then!) ..and she said something I’ve always remembered:

“Sometimes you have to love them enough to let them die”...it took me a good many years to understand what that means.

SE Mom 06/29/82


56 posted on 01/25/2011 8:49:39 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Lazamataz
who finally got out with the help of HP.

Ink jet rehab?

"You haven't been drinking again, have you?"

69 posted on 01/25/2011 9:00:33 AM PST by library user (Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you're lazy.)
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To: Lazamataz

Read the sad story about pitcher Steve Howe who would have had a career fit for the Hall of Fame but for his addictions and was given something like four or five “second chances.”


77 posted on 01/25/2011 9:06:07 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (If every person were like Sarah Palin, this world would be a peaceful, beautiful world to live in.)
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