Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-13-2024, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 191
A Friend
It is said in recovery that we've all become our own worst enemy, very few of us when new to recovery can see how we have. This is because all of us have become so accustomed to doing all the things...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-13-2024, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
November 13
A person's best ally is someone...
November 13
A person's best ally is someone who takes care of herself.
~Susan Clarke
It was hard to learn how to walk if she couldn't fall down, but the girl was too little to be able to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-13-2024, 05:43 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
November 13
Work with what you have
You...
November 13
Work with what you have
You can’t make everything perfect. No one else can make your life perfect.
But you can make the choice to live well despite the imperfections. Whatever...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-11-2024, 03:19 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
November 11
Conscience is God's presence in...
November 11
Conscience is God's presence in man.
~Emanuel Swedenborg
As we mature, our conscience grows, and vice versa. We follow a principle that directs us to promptly admit when we are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-11-2024, 02:38 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
November 11
Amazing truth
Are you...
November 11
Amazing truth
Are you hiding inside a comfortable cocoon of assumptions? Or are you venturing boldly into the amazement of this moment?
Possibilities surge into reality, ready to...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-10-2024, 10:16 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 464
The Healing
We all want to heal but from what and how are the questions for all of us when we all come into recovery. Our problem for all of us is within us with little hope of any of us being able to have any...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-10-2024, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
November 10
All are related.
~Lakota...
November 10
All are related.
~Lakota Saying
We are all related. What a powerful idea. Every living thing and every part of nature was made by the same Higher Power that made us. We are all...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-09-2024, 07:37 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
November 10
Purposeful focus
Don’t beat...
November 10
Purposeful focus
Don’t beat yourself up for the time you’ve wasted, because that would waste even more. Just decide what good, productive, meaningful use you can make of your time...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-09-2024, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
November 9
I find it awfully hard to give...
November 9
I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.
~Walker I.
"I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-07-2024, 03:09 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
November 7
Embrace the journey.
~Saying...
November 7
Embrace the journey.
~Saying heard in Twelve Step meetings
Our goals inspire us, and our plans help us take appropriate steps toward bringing our dreams and visions to fruition....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-07-2024, 02:27 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
November 7
When you’re mistaken
...
November 7
When you’re mistaken
Discovering you’ve been mistaken is not pleasant. But it’s a whole lot better than remaining oblivious to the mistake.
Only when you know something is wrong,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-06-2024, 04:11 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 14
Daily Reflections
INTUITION...
November 14
Daily Reflections
INTUITION AND INSPIRATION
. . . . we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it
easy. We don't struggle.
ALCOHOLICS...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-06-2024, 03:54 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
November 6
Our Higher Power is in charge.
...
November 6
Our Higher Power is in charge.
It's such a relief to give up our obsession to control, once we learn how. As we do to establish any new routine, we have to practice. In this case, we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-06-2024, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
November 6
Reliable reality
Some things...
November 6
Reliable reality
Some things change from day to day, and give life a fascinating, though perhaps frightening array of new flavors. Most things, though, are the same as they were the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2024, 09:50 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
Good November the 4th my
Dear Tammy, I just...
Good November the 4th my
Dear Tammy, I just read your message
about you not feeling well.
I will most definitely put you and
your husband on my prayer list.
What is your husband name?
Father...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2024, 05:19 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
November 4
You Deserve to Treat Yourself...
November 4
You Deserve to Treat Yourself Better
As a veteran, you’ve done what countless millions of other people cannot or will not do, and that is serve this country. And you deserve the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2024, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
November 4
Live with competence
There...
November 4
Live with competence
There are things you are competent at doing. Challenge that competence, improve that competence, expand on it, repeatedly put it to meaningful use.
Be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2024, 05:06 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
November 4
Live with competence
There...
November 4
Live with competence
There are things you are competent at doing. Challenge that competence, improve that competence, expand on it, repeatedly put it to meaningful use.
Be...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-03-2024, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 639
The Hurting
We all are so full of hurt and so worn out by having to carry it with us all the time by the time we all get to recovery, but very few of us have any idea why we are hurting the way all of us are. We...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:40 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 13
Daily Reflections
LOOKING...
November 13
Daily Reflections
LOOKING OUTWARD
We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no requests for
ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 12
Daily Reflections
MORNING...
November 12
Daily Reflections
MORNING THOUGHTS
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still
sick.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164
For many years I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 11
Daily Reflections
...
November 11
Daily Reflections
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will
be well with us, here and hereafter.
TWELVE STEPS AND...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:38 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 10
Daily Reflections
A SENSE...
November 10
Daily Reflections
A SENSE OF BELONGING
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging
that comes to us.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:31 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
November 3
Avoiding fights
The program...
November 3
Avoiding fights
The program encourages us to stop fighting against people and things. In fighting, our principles get blurred and it gets harder to think, so we have trouble doing...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-02-2024, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
November 2
Addressing Our Shadows
No...
November 2
Addressing Our Shadows
No matter how far you think you have fallen at times in your life, you are not an evil person, not even if you believe that some of the things you did in your...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-01-2024, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
Its nice to be nice.
Happy November my ...
Its nice to be nice.
Happy November my
Dear friend Tammy.
Thank God for getting us though the
month of October safe and sound
one day at a time.
I pray that this month will be full of peace,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-01-2024, 07:32 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,376
Today's Thought - November
November 1
If you don’t take chances, you can’t do anything in life.
~Michael Spinks
Many of us have done things that, in looking back, seem insane or dangerous. We may have had friends or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-01-2024, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,839
Daily Motivator - November
November 1
Nice and polite
It’s great to be nice, to be polite. Everyone prefers to interact with other people who are polite.
Yet when you hide or even deny the truth in the interest of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2024, 05:36 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 9
Daily Reflections
STEPPING...
November 9
Daily Reflections
STEPPING INTO THE SUNLIGHT
But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much
can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into
the sun.
AS BILL SEES...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2024, 05:35 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 8
Daily Reflections
AN...
November 8
Daily Reflections
AN INDIVIDUAL ADVENTURE
Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries,
either of width or height. Aided by such...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2024, 05:34 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 7
Daily Reflections
LET GO AND...
November 7
Daily Reflections
LET GO AND LET GOD
. . . praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96
When I "Let...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-29-2024, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,923
October 29
AA Thought for the Day
We...
October 29
AA Thought for the Day
We alcoholics used so little self-control when we were drinking, we were so absolutely selfish, that it does us good to give up something once in a while....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-29-2024, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 16,351
October 29
Work of true richness
Your...
October 29
Work of true richness
Your life deserves to be more than just a series of empty transactions. Give meaning to the minutes, hours, months and years.
Your interactions are too...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
10-28-2024, 11:13 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 773
Facing It
All of us have been runners, running away from something. For some of us we knew exactly what we were running from, for the rest of us didn't, but it really doesn't matter either way, once we've all...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2024, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 6
Daily Reflections
GOING WITH...
November 6
Daily Reflections
GOING WITH THE FLOW
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we
understood Him. .
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2024, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 5
Daily Reflections
"THE...
November 5
Daily Reflections
"THE QUALITY OF FAITH"
This. . . has to do with the quality of faith. . . . In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever
taken stock of ourselves. . . . We had...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2024, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 4
Daily Reflections
A DAILY...
November 4
Daily Reflections
A DAILY DISCIPLINE
, . . when they [self-examination, meditation and prayer] are logically related and
interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2024, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 3
Daily Reflections
FOCUSING...
November 3
Daily Reflections
FOCUSING AND LISTENING
There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken
separately, these practices can bring much relief and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2024, 06:41 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,923
October 27
The more I force things, the...
October 27
The more I force things, the tougher my life.
~Helen Neujahr
Are we driven to control? Perhaps we wonder if trying to control other people is part of the human condition. We've...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2024, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,923
October 26
Honesty
Honesty's the best...
October 26
Honesty
Honesty's the best policy.
~Miguel de Cervantes
How grateful we became when we moved out from the shadows of our past. Our program asked us to be honest. We found that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2024, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 16,351
October 27
Appreciating the limitations
...
October 27
Appreciating the limitations
When the possibilities are unlimited, when you can do anything, too often you do nothing. You become so overwhelmed with all the choices that it seems...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2024, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 16,351
October 26
Let life be good
Let life be...
October 26
Let life be good
Let life be good today. The quality of what you experience is greatly influenced by the way you expect your experience to be.
So expect goodness, offer kindness,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2024, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
November 2
Daily Reflections
KEEPING...
November 2
Daily Reflections
KEEPING OPTIMISM AFLOAT
The other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But Step Eleven
can keep us growing. . . .
THE LANGUAGE OF THE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2024, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,910
Daily Recovery Readings - November
November 1
Daily Reflections
I CANNOT CHANGE THE WIND
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are
headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-24-2024, 06:05 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 31,141
October 31
Daily Reflections
AVOIDING...
October 31
Daily Reflections
AVOIDING CONTROVERSY
All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder
because they were designed for, or tempted into,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2024, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,923
October 24
The spiritual life does not...
October 24
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
~Henri J. M. Nouwen
We get into recovery to get our life back. The shame that is often part of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2024, 05:44 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 16,351
October 24
Treasures remain
Various...
October 24
Treasures remain
Various circumstances and experiences come and go. Yet the treasures you gain in living through them remain with you always.
Every day is your chance to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-23-2024, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,923
October 23
Unless I accept my virtues, I...
October 23
Unless I accept my virtues, I most certainly will be overwhelmed by my faults.
~Robert G. Coleman
For many shame-based reasons, it is always easier to acknowledge our flaws than...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-23-2024, 06:54 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 16,351
October 23
Minor inconvenience
Your...
October 23
Minor inconvenience
Your troubles seem big and ugly whenever they arrive. But nearly every one ends up being a minor inconvenience in the context of your whole life.
Storms will...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-22-2024, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,923
October 22
Experiment
Experiment. Try...
October 22
Experiment
Experiment. Try something new. Try stepping out. We have been held back too long. We have held ourselves back too long.
As children, many of us were deprived of the...
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