Time is the healer

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@JonesCarpeDiem Dale used those words in his post yesterday, and yesterday I had a surprising experience that really proved the truth of that. I was out running errands with my wife when we walked past a couple of people who were smoking. Wow, the smell of the smoke sure did carry. I reflexively muttered under my breath, Geez, that’s disgusting! It really stank. I thought, I used to smell like that, oh, man … ack. But the point is that it was the first time I’d smelled cigarette smoke and not felt wistful … instead, I felt grossed out.

It was like I had returned to my pre-smoking days, when I thought cigarettes were the nastiest things going. Kinda blew my mind. All of this not to say Yay me! but to say

IT IS POSSIBLE! I NEVER THOUGHT IT COULD HAPPEN, BUT IT DID!

Keep the faith. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you too!

Cheers, Terry

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I am a recently retired artist, educator, filmmaker, and all-around slightly domesticated wild child who loves to howl at the moon. I am the daughter of two nicotine addicts, and my mom was also an alcoholic. She found AA and reclaimed her authentic seIf. She paid it forward and helped countless others find their way through. She had been a smoker since her high school days, as had my dad, and quit when my dad was diagnosed with very early stage lung cancer in 1993. They both quit on the spot, over 30 years ago, but my dear mom passed away from stage 4 lung cancer in May 2018. My dad was virtually crippled by COPD the last couple of years and he passed March 2023. I miss them both so much. Smoking killed both of them. I vowed all my life that I would never smoke, so go figure, for some idiot reason I started smoking in 2009. Now I’m free. I enjoy building tables out of reclaimed wood and love working in my shop. I have a massive model train project that has “this will take YEARS” written all over it! I love gardening, camping, reading, and drawing. I am married to the best of wives and best of women, over 15 years now. We’re looking forward to travels and adventures and just being together in this wonderful state of retirement!

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Time is the healer

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