Anniversary
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Dallas TX
Posts: 2,282
Anniversary
X years, exactly how many would be both embarrassing and
counter to SR's primary point of effectiveness (anonymity).Two
dates are indelible.The day this started & the day I found out
(belatedly) that she had passed.
As tempting as it would be to say that every last thought,
well wish, action, or word was a complete & total waste.....
thanks to SR I cannot state this as fact without fear of
successful challenge.
I have seen many SR people come and go. I have seen
happy stories and stories of unimaginable and interminable
pain. But always, always, always.....there is someone here to
listen-----without exception (even when the sad time comes for
our pets to go home).
And that is good.
There's a saying that God hears all prayers---even if sometimes
the answer is no. I wish she had rediscovered life, and went home
to a family that loved her. But it was not to be. Perhaps in a
parallel universe she arrived at that fork in the road and found her
way home.....but not in this one.
The loss of her home, husband, kids, and life.
----I will always believe that she died of a broken heart.
Something that each & every one of us knows something about.
I came to SR for answers , but I did not find them. There ARE
no answers to addiction. But I did find something even better.
Kindred souls to whom no explanation is necessary, and to whom
no amount of thanks will ever be sufficient.
counter to SR's primary point of effectiveness (anonymity).Two
dates are indelible.The day this started & the day I found out
(belatedly) that she had passed.
As tempting as it would be to say that every last thought,
well wish, action, or word was a complete & total waste.....
thanks to SR I cannot state this as fact without fear of
successful challenge.
I have seen many SR people come and go. I have seen
happy stories and stories of unimaginable and interminable
pain. But always, always, always.....there is someone here to
listen-----without exception (even when the sad time comes for
our pets to go home).
And that is good.
There's a saying that God hears all prayers---even if sometimes
the answer is no. I wish she had rediscovered life, and went home
to a family that loved her. But it was not to be. Perhaps in a
parallel universe she arrived at that fork in the road and found her
way home.....but not in this one.
The loss of her home, husband, kids, and life.
----I will always believe that she died of a broken heart.
Something that each & every one of us knows something about.
I came to SR for answers , but I did not find them. There ARE
no answers to addiction. But I did find something even better.
Kindred souls to whom no explanation is necessary, and to whom
no amount of thanks will ever be sufficient.
Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
Vale, you are a special gift to all of us here. 
Through your pain, through your recovery, through your caring words to each person here, we have walked together and our world here is a better place because you are in it.
I am sorry for the pain that comes on anniversaries and special days, may one day the good memories bring a smile or merely regrets and may the pain lesson with time and healing.
Hugs
Through your pain, through your recovery, through your caring words to each person here, we have walked together and our world here is a better place because you are in it.
I am sorry for the pain that comes on anniversaries and special days, may one day the good memories bring a smile or merely regrets and may the pain lesson with time and healing.
Hugs
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Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Dallas TX
Posts: 2,282
Wow, Ann! Special gift? So I guess the viral cheesecake party
debacle of 2012 is forgiven? I have absolutely NO IDEA how
your refrigerator door found it's way off it's hinges and all the way
up the street! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Working hard on Google image for suitably ridiculous duck image.
Humor has always been my antidote to sadness. It is difficult to laugh
and cry at the same time.
It is an honor and a privilege to walk amongst you ALL. Not a one
some polished phony expression of some bullcrap ideal......but rather
battle damaged and battle hardened soldiers whom I would gladly lead
or follow anywhere.
Should we find ourselves under orders to take Hell? No problem.
It'll be a repeat tour for us. Been there, done that.
debacle of 2012 is forgiven? I have absolutely NO IDEA how
your refrigerator door found it's way off it's hinges and all the way
up the street! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Working hard on Google image for suitably ridiculous duck image.
Humor has always been my antidote to sadness. It is difficult to laugh
and cry at the same time.
It is an honor and a privilege to walk amongst you ALL. Not a one
some polished phony expression of some bullcrap ideal......but rather
battle damaged and battle hardened soldiers whom I would gladly lead
or follow anywhere.
Should we find ourselves under orders to take Hell? No problem.
It'll be a repeat tour for us. Been there, done that.
Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
So I guess the viral cheesecake party
debacle of 2012 is forgiven? I have absolutely NO IDEA how
your refrigerator door found it's way off it's hinges and all the way
up the street! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
debacle of 2012 is forgiven? I have absolutely NO IDEA how
your refrigerator door found it's way off it's hinges and all the way
up the street! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
And who are you calling battle damaged! Harummph, there is no damage that Olay Regenerist cannot repair.
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