Sometimes love can outlive addiction

'As long as there is breath, there is hope'

Dec 29, 2009 08:29 EST

Lancaster

By JEFF HAWKES, Staff Writer

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QUOTE (Princezleah613 @ Dec 29 2009, 05:24 PM)

I am writing to you all to let you know that we did not put our life out there for scrutiny. I do not need your support or acceptance.
Our story is not for you suppossed tax payers who did not give us one dime. My taxpayers money is fixing your little suburb streets while the city is full of potholes.
I have worked my entire life and am a single income without medical benefits. So dont talk to me about tax payers money. We most of all do not seek your pity or praise. I do not want nor do i care for it.
Am I an enabler (yes) I enabled my family to have a second chance. I enabled my children to have a father who loves them and spends everywaking moment with them. My children are homeschooled so my taxes go to the schools.
Why should I support your children or pay for a public school or after school programs that my children do not attend?
Those of you who have supported us Thank you.
Those of you who didn't (it doesnt matter) you dont pay my taxes, my food, my car, my rent, my utilities, my medical bills, my schooling, my husband's daily dose, or my husband's rehabilitation. (need I add more?)You have not made or broken us.
After this there is nothing else to say except that you made your judgement on us before you even read the article. We were already tagged as a junkie an enabler and sucking the system dry. Once again Thank You for the comments but it will not deter us and we will continue the fight wether we have societies approval or not.

I wish you well. And ..well said! I have to take my hat off that you even bothered to digest any of this and sign up w/an acc't to respond to any of it. ]

Happy New Year, everyone!
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spaylady

QUOTE (A1 @ Dec 31 2009, 09:12 AM)

Welcome to TB. Hitler gets thrown around quite a bit around here.

That's what happens when old dictators are alive and well and living in Argentina
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ceejay

QUOTE (Nicknack @ Dec 30 2009, 12:47 PM)

what kind of moron would even "try it just once"?

I like this. True that the person in this article was introduced at a young age by people who never told him what harm it will do to him. So let me edit your post: What kind of even-semi-informed moron would "ty it just once"?

I've talked to many people who seemed to live the same teenage life I did: boring small town, underage drinking, smoking pot every so often, etc. Every single one of them who absolutely did not want to even touch anything worse than that, and have since 'grown out' of the casual weed have been very thankful for their smart decisions. I know I am, because the guy who first asked me, at a party when I was 16, if I wanted to try some coke ended up flunking out his first semester of college, losing lots of friends, stepping up to heroin, getting kicked out of his parents, getting kicked out of his friends' apartment, not working, and living god-knows-where now. Such a shame, because I actually thought he was a really smart guy when we were in H.S. together.
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Madprofe55or

QUOTE (mamanose @ Dec 29 2009, 12:23 PM)

YOU SOUND LIKE HITLER, HMMM THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE ME, THEY DON'T WORK LIKE ME, THEY DON'T PAY TAXES LIKE ME, THEY DON'T DESERVE THE SAME AIR I BREATHE...OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! ONE WORD GENOCIDE!!!

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Bober40

QUOTE (spaylady @ Dec 31 2009, 02:50 PM)

I wish you well. And ..well said! I have to take my hat off that you even bothered to digest any of this and sign up w/an acc't to respond to any of it. ]

Happy New Year, everyone!

Yes, Best luck to you and your family...ignore the idiots, racists and uninformed! You have made it clear that you are not someone draining our tax system (Good for you!). You and your family deserve a great life! I wish you the best!
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