Wow! I didn't know that!

Old 11-22-2008, 07:39 PM
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Wow! I didn't know that!

This website has a feature where you plug in your sobriety date and it calculates days, hours, minutes and seconds of sobriety. DD from time to time will ask how many days old am I? So I always plug her BD in there and we have a laugh.

This time, she read what the feature really is and asked me to plug in my sobriety date. I am not a sobriety date nazi or anything so I just use April 1, 2006, that's close enough for my purposes.

Any way, she was sitting on my lap as I was entering the info and I paused to think what year it was, and she said "it was 2006, I remember because I was in kinder". :wtf2

I said, how'd you remember that, was it that significant to you?

She said it was the most important day of her life. Who knew? I am truly CLUELESS sometimes. So here I sit all welled up and no where to go.

She wrote a note to hang up that is entitled "A day I will always remember" by Little Miss Coyote......

My Dad became sober April 1, 2006, my favorite day ever.

Love,
Little Miss Coyote

Damn. That's some good stuff.

Thanks and God bless us all, :praying
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Old 11-22-2008, 07:44 PM
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aww..Coyote.....thanks for sharing that...beautiful...
oh, the gifts of recovery....
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Oh, thanks a LOT, Coyote. And I had almost 24 full hours without bawling my face off 'til now

What a beautiful, beautiful story. Bless you, Little Miss Coyote !!
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Out of the mouths of pups....
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You gave your child the greatest gift you could ever give her. What a wonderful testimony to sobriety.
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Old 11-22-2008, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by GiveLove View Post
Oh, thanks a LOT, Coyote. And I had almost 24 full hours without bawling my face off 'til now
Glad we could help! :ghug3

Thanks and God bless us all, :praying
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Old 11-22-2008, 10:06 PM
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Out of the mouths of pups....
Took me a while.....but I finally got it! Ha!

Thanks and God bless us all,
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Old 11-22-2008, 10:33 PM
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I was wondering....
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Awwww thank you for sharing that that is so beautiful! What a wonderful priceless
gift from a special little coyote
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Old 11-23-2008, 04:20 PM
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that is so awesome. You truly did give little coyote the best gift ever!

Hugs and prayers!

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Old 11-23-2008, 04:28 PM
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Man oh man did my eyes well up on that one! :ghug :ghug
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Old 11-23-2008, 04:34 PM
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What a beautiful testament to sobriety. You are blessed.
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Old 11-23-2008, 06:13 PM
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Man oh man did my eyes well up on that one! :ghug :ghug
At the end of my f2f Alanon meeting tonight we always ask if there are any burning desires to be left, and I shared this story. This is not necessarily an Alanon story, but these are my friends. There were only about 6 or 7 of us, but not a dry eye in the bunch.

Thanks again for letting me share and God bless us all, :praying
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Old 11-23-2008, 06:17 PM
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You are blessed.
Yes I am. Thank you.

God bless us all, :praying
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Wow - you have a very special daughter. You must be doing something right. Thank you for sharing that story!
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