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- From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)
- Subject: Re: Clean time
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:16:14 GMT
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- scimitar@suction.acme.gen.nz (Robert Singers) sez:
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- >I was wondering if anyone had come across the same problem I did. The
- >fixation with the length of clean time. When I was regularly going to
- >meetings and worked shops I noticed that a lot of the people who had
- >been in recovery for a long time, said "I'm clean today" if everyone was
- >asked how long they'd been clean.
-
- I used to be extraordinarily concerned with the amount of time I had
- been sober and clean. After a while it proved to be a silly
- preoccupation. What really matters is whether you are clean and sober
- TODAY. I know I have over 2.5 years sober but can't remember what my
- sobriety date is...I have it written down at home though. :)
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