Since I have been sober,
I have been healed of many pains:
deceiving my partner, deserting my best friend,
and spoiling my mother's hopes for my life.
In each case someone in the program told me of a similar problem,
and I was able to share what happened to me.
When my story was told,
both of us got up with lighter hearts.
The ankle-biters of everyday struggles will eat away at me
unless I go to meetings and share.
H O P E = Hearing Other Peoples' Experience.
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