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Mar 30, 2011, 03:12 PM
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Member Since: Oct 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 6,543
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Bless your heart ~ you're not the only person who's gotten "taken" by one of these addicts. I too got scammed by some "poor down-on-her luck alcoholic. She'd been beaten up something terrible by her boyfriend ~ she looked just AWFUL. So a bunch of us alcoholics in recovery gathered up her stuff, and took her to MY house so she could stay there til she found somewhere else to live.  Oh brother. Things were going fine - until I got a phone call at work one night from the FIRE DEPT. that my house was on fire!!! I rushed home, and found that it was just smoke damage -- she had fallen into a drunken stupor while she had cookies in the oven - of course they burned - and smoke was billowing out of the house!! The detector notified the cops that the house was burning. Good grief. Since both of us were in AA -- i reamed her a good one, and put her stuff outside the next day. She was GONE in a couple of hours. Her son was in that house too -- she could have KILLED that little boy. 
So see? We all get taken sometime or another. NEVER AGAIN!! Thank goodness we learn from it, right?  Hugs, Lee
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