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Thank you for sharing this today <3 May it benefit those who need it xo

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thank YOU for sharing this from your heart, thank you thank you. & I hope this can be the beginning of a future friendship 🌱

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Sep 24Liked by Esmé Weijun Wang

Loved reading this window into your story and sobriety, Cody. Thank you for sharing and for your beautiful presence in the world.

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Vou escrever em português porque meu inglês é muito ruim; tenho a esperança de que se você colocar meu comentário no tradutor, terá melhor compreensão do que se eu tentar escrever em outra língua. Seu relato me tocou muito. Sou uma pessoa vivendo com TPB e não tenho vícios químicos, mas muitas dependências comportamentais; além disso, pessoas em recuperação da adicção fazem parte da minha vida em vários lugares, inclusive na instância religiosa-comunitária. Sua escrita é inspiradora e me faz resgatar "motivos para viver", tanto no cuidado a mim mesma quanto a essas pessoas próximas a mim. Obrigada por sua sinceridade e abertura, e por essa escrita com tamanha sensibilidade.

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thank you so much 💕

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I was 22 as well when I found sobriety so this was lovely to read. Thank you.

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Congratulations on your sobriety! And thank you so much for reading.

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Dad

Our bond was unconventional

While we didn't share a roof

We shared the sky

Through it all

Though our conversation

Was silence

Through it all

I heard your guidance

And though long a distance

Felt your love

A North star

I would not trade you

For the world

Because quite simply

I love you.

And that's something

Can't be bought

Sold

Or defiled

Or changed in any way.

An illogical puzzle

Scattered to bewilder

Only meant for those

Chosen hearts

Able to decode

constellations

And those bewildered yet lucky to catch a glimpse.

But we wrote the book

On a stubborn burning

Heart full of fierceness

Despite all odds.

Our bond was something

Not of this world…

Because

It was written in the stars.

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