to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first

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　　drinking , the whole family was on

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　　and needles every time he got into a

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　　that, in the past, would have

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　　him drinking again. For a few years we were

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　　to bring it up

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　　that the drinking would begin again.

　　“I had this little poem that I would recite to myself at least four to five times a day,” was Dad’s

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　　to my 18-year-old unasked question. “The words were a constant

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　　to me that things were

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　　so hard that I could not deal with them,” Dad said. And then he

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　　the poem with me. The poem’s

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　　, yet profound words immediately became

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　　of my daily routine as well.

　　About a month after this talk with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily sayings of wisdom with one

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　　for each day of the year.

　　It has been my experience that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own

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