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of past experiences and present expectations that will inevitably cloud our vision and alter the image before us.

I read once that our emotions are not reliable and shouldn't be trusted because our emotions do not reflect reality and can lead us down a road that isn't necessarily built on truth. I see the logic in such a statement but as a woman who feels life very strongly; that's a pretty tall order! But I can also see how my emotions get me into troublehow they can take over my entire being until I can see nothing else but my own truthleaving me with my share of battle scars and searching for my next hit. With emotion running through my veins, in a world made for the soberwhat's a girl to do?!?! What's any girl to do?

I have lived a life along side many other peopleand we are different. Our memories are different, our experiences are different, our resulting character is differentbut we are still here, in this lifetogether. We are all in recovery from somethingtogether. We endure our own form of rehab hoping to be set freetogether. And what would we be without that? What would we be without a life to connect us allwithout a middle ground to call a trucewithout twelve different steps to help lift us up a bit higher to a self that is bit more familiar?

We would be lost. We would be broken. We would be alone in our reality that no one else knows. We would, most definitely, be nothing more than a million little pieces.

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