Day Two The Dream

it doesn't matter why.

This story How Far Can A Gift Go and this picture explain some of the new found camaraderie between us. I asked my father permission to print the story before publication.

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He was delighted and began to look forward to me bringing my drawings and stories to him of a night. The night I read this story to him was the night of my fifth year of sobriety/clean and sober time. I had been plagued with doubt all day. "Should I go to the hospital or to the meeting where they planned a party in my honour?" I chose the hospital. That night my father told me he was proud of me for getting clean (hard for him a gambling, publican) and that he liked me coming. He now understood that me sitting quietly without talking was OK. Before my silence made him uncomfortable, whereas now he could accept me, he had now come to understand was normal for me.

Time had become an issue. There are four dangers for an alcholic

1. hungry,
2. lonely,
3. angry
4. tired.

Addicts are cautioned to try not to let these conditions happen. If it is inevitable - recognise that they are there and take safeguard. The warning signs were there

• I was getting behind in my work.
• I was dealing with things I was not used to. Like intimacy.
• I feared my father would die and still we would not have made amends.
• I feared that I would not deal with issues when the time came for him to die. As things became worse and worse, my fears increased and became less and less rational and more a product of a tired imaginary.

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