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Patris's avatar

It’s more complicated than most people think isn’t it?

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Absolutely. It's like webs of a venomous spider strung between thorn bushes inside a vehicle rolling down a hill sometimes. But some of us make it out.

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Patris's avatar

And am so very grateful for it.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Me too.

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Patty Mallett's avatar

Written from experience?

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I was never much of a crack guy and I certainly didn't hit houses like that. It's an amalgam of experiences of me and my friends.

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C.L. Steiner's avatar

“looking at his feet as though they weren’t attached to him.”

Yes, it’s just like that. Or the car drives itself right to the spot.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Yep. "Holy shit, I'm at the bar."

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Mike McKenzie's avatar

Recovery is the great equalizer. Attend a local 12 step program open meeting. There, you''ll find a guy dressed like a stock broker sitting next to a drag queen. There's a soccer mom, a death-metal kid with tats and piercing on anything flesh. There, they need each other and like each other. Death metal kid is the banker's strength, hope, and courage. The Drag queen could even be soccer mom's sponsor. This is why I firmly believe society in general is in dire need of a good 12 Step Program. STEP ONE: we have admitted that we've let the things that divide us overcome those that could unite us. And it has made our lives unmanageable.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

That's a great way of approaching it.

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V Moire's avatar

“He imagined a catalog for shrinks that had shit like Soothing Notepads for Junkies. 14.99 a case”

I laughed out loud because I’m pretty sure that exists

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I was confident it wasn't a stretch

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Luke's avatar

Another one. You write fiction, but at the same time the most real stories.

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