My dear friend.

I just sat and stared at the line with the cursor blinking. What to say? Others have said it takes a lot of courage to do that and you're showing others that it can be done, it is possible to share something so deep, so moving.

I hope you don't take this wrong, but it left me wanting more. Its one thing to see it on tv, all the way here in the desert where there's no water. Its one thing to see the news reports, to watch it in rememberence. But when you read something first hand from someone who was there....this was just such a big event in our country but its so easy to view it like a movie, its impossible for me to imagine it. You let me peer in and "see". See what you and everyone went through.

Thank you for this. I don't think T realized how many people you would touch with this post. Or maybe she did, who knows what her train of thought was in asking you to do this.

In sharing with others, we take some of the burden off ourselves. In sharing our experience, we get to show others that surviving can be done. In sharing this, which your ticker underneath, you're showing that anyone can get sober, no matter what they've been through.

I don't have a question. Just a statement I guess. By you doing this, you not only help yourself, but everyone who reads it. You show that LOVE can get us through anything. You show that COURAGE means survival. You show that NOTHING CAN STOP THE YATS. I admire you so my friend. I am SO honored to call you my friend.