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#164768 - 07/04/07 04:20 PM
Re: Come get a standing ovation!
[Re: outis]
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Registered: 05/02/05
Posts: 22045
Loc: Carlisle, PA
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Hi guys, A lot of you won't remember this totally cool thread started by Curtis way back in 2004. He was at a retreat and just jumped up at one point and declared, "I want a standing ovation!" And he got it. Back on the DB he started this thread that so many of us have participated in. It's all about saying, "I'm worth it!" I remember loving it from the start. Today I want to revive it. Today, the 4th of July 2007, is the 32nd anniversary of something I thought I would never EVER be able to do - give up hard drugs. I have been clean since the 4th of July 1975. Why do I feel this anniversary is so significant? Because this is the first year I have seen this as an achievement. In all previous years I looked back and saw no achievement at all; after all, I was the trashed and messed up young man who could be had for a song, or a drink, or a tab, or a hit... Why celebrate anything that connects with that? Because I'm not that messed-up kid anymore. Because regardless of all the shit he did I respect him and love him - he didn't know what choices he had, and at least he survived. He got us through all alone, with all that burden of shame and guilt and fear. Sooooooo.....32 years clean off drugs, and I WANT A STANDING OVATION!!!!!!  Much demanding, Larry
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Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway.
Nobody living can make me turn back:
This land was made for you and me. (Woody Guthrie)
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#164770 - 07/04/07 04:23 PM
Re: Come get a standing ovation!
[Re: roadrunner]
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Registered: 06/11/07
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clapperdeclapclapclap clapclap (....) clap clap clap (etc) clap!!! Xavier
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Rather laugh about what has been
Then fear what still comes, perhaps
Rather loving a big ghost
Then hating something that you can’t see
You are gone, but closer then ever
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#164781 - 07/04/07 05:50 PM
Re: Come get a standing ovation!
[Re: BruisedSpirit]
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Registered: 06/04/07
Posts: 434
Loc: St. Louis, Missouri
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Well Larry,
CLAP..CLAP..CLAP..CLAP..CLAP..CLAP..CLAP..CLAP
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and I'll add a BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congradulations!!!!!!! ( note 32 claps for 32 years )
Luv ya,
Carl
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Shawn and Ben will always be in my heart....
Happiness is like peeing your pants; Everyone can see it, but only YOU feel the warmth.
Peebles, Ohio WOR alumni, Oct. 2007
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#164786 - 07/04/07 06:52 PM
Re: Come get a standing ovation!
[Re: Scoutvictim]
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Registered: 06/02/07
Posts: 702
Loc: oregon
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Congrats larry thats quite the acomplishment.
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#164905 - 07/05/07 12:22 PM
Re: Come get a standing ovation!
[Re: EGL]
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Registered: 08/30/05
Posts: 16259
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Larry,
I'm on my feet (or will be as soon as I get this typed and sent) applauding you and Little L for your guts and determination to win through, for your wisdom in seeking the friendship and counsel of those whom you knew truly cared at a time when you felt worthless, for the loving, compassionate man you've become, and for the journey you are still on.
I wish you well, My Friend,
John
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“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy ____…! What a ride!’” ~Hunter S. Thompson
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