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    Let Me Tell You About That Girl

    MAY 28, 2012 11:26PM

    By Deborah Méndez Wilson


    Topics: happy birthday mom, family lore, birds and the bees, alcoholism, family hardships

    • 0 Ratings
    • 15 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Cancer: Dry Eyes for Me

    MAY 30, 2012 3:48PM

    By A writer from Kentucky


    Topics: christmas, recovery, health, women, alcoholism, cancer

    • 23 Ratings
    • 516 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY DAD...&...SORRY I KILLED U

    MAY 16, 2012 12:34PM

    By James M. Emmerling


    Topics: family, dad, guilt, sisters, love, redemption, alcoholism, television, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 1445 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Sober and miserable: A moment of clarity and prayer

    MAY 15, 2012 10:59AM

    By grif -


    Topics: gratitude, moments of clarity, prayer, sobriety, recovery, alcoholism

    • 19 Ratings
    • 673 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Anesthetized to life: Thirty years of drinking and now this?

    APRIL 29, 2012 6:11PM

    By grif -


    Topics: recovery, prayer, self-centeredness, i deserve special consideration, not being good enough, failure, rejection, abandonment, fear, survivior, sobriety, feelings, alcoholism

    • 8 Ratings
    • 270 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    The clock is ticking

    APRIL 27, 2012 11:58PM

    By smalltownwriter


    Topics: alanon, alcoholism

    • 12 Ratings
    • 539 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Am I 'back on the market?'

    APRIL 2, 2012 12:23AM

    By smalltownwriter


    Topics: alcoholism, al-anon, marriage

    • 7 Ratings
    • 310 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    May I have this dance?

    MARCH 25, 2012 8:40PM

    By smalltownwriter


    Topics: marriage, al-anon, alcoholism

    • 15 Ratings
    • 457 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    'I Can't Believe Alcohol Is Stronger Than Love'

    MARCH 25, 2012 6:56PM

    By libbyliberalnyc


    Topics: children of alcoholics, codependency, alcoholism

    • 8 Ratings
    • 338 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Trying to find myself

    MARCH 18, 2012 10:11AM

    By smalltownwriter


    Topics: marriage, al-anon, alcoholism

    • 5 Ratings
    • 293 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    On Alcoholism... and a Tough Houseplant

    MARCH 21, 2012 1:42PM

    By Living with Caer


    Topics: higher power, aa, addiction, alcoholism, family, belief/religion

    • 16 Ratings
    • 465 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    an examination of the drunk poet examining: Bukowski and me

    MARCH 14, 2012 11:18AM

    By Foolish Monkey


    Topics: poetry, poets, bukowski, alcoholism, bukowski the cartographer, drunkenness, on being a drunk or a writer or a poet, charles bukowski, the monkey poet and the living dead poet bukowski

    • 38 Ratings
    • 664 Views
    • 45 Comments
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    A Thought

    MARCH 13, 2012 9:35AM

    By Lunchlady 2


    Topics: life, divorce, alcoholism, death, waiting, husbands, mothers, children

    • 22 Ratings
    • 394 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Black Sheep

    MARCH 8, 2012 2:24PM

    By jmac1949


    Topics: belief/religion, family, health, alcoholism, antique guns, indiana

    • 31 Ratings
    • 692 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    A Heart Breaks Unevenly

    MARCH 7, 2012 9:47AM

    By mypsyche


    Topics: alcoholism, friends and family, shame, horror, want a drink?

    • 35 Ratings
    • 903 Views
    • 72 Comments
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    Just Hearing the News.... with Last, Best Update !

    MARCH 2, 2012 6:53PM

    By Just Thinking...


    Topics: he has the most beautiful sparkly eyes -- i hope to see them smiling at me again, senseless waste, domestic disputes, little girls shouldn't have to lose a parent--neither should teen-aged boys, how could such a bright lad have been so stupid?, drinking and driving, alcoholism, family, i believe in the power of prayer

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    • 25 Ratings
    • 2755 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    A story about my son--born on 9/10/01

    FEBRUARY 29, 2012 6:32AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: nyc, roosevelt hospital, preeclampsia, nurses, doctors, twin towers, single moms, childbirth, addiction, alcoholism, relationships, writers & writing, life stories, real families, 9/11

    • 1 Ratings
    • 439 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Whitney and the Wreckage

    FEBRUARY 20, 2012 12:10PM

    By Amy Shea


    Topics: belief/religion, family, music, happiness, drug addiction, alcoholism

    • 4 Ratings
    • 465 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Mom did the best she could

    FEBRUARY 19, 2012 10:20AM

    By smalltownwriter


    Topics: alcoholism, al-anon, marriage

    • 14 Ratings
    • 538 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Alcoholic love

    FEBRUARY 18, 2012 9:39AM

    By smalltownwriter


    Topics: alcoholism, al-anon, marriage

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