Dear Life, It is fair to say that 42 years of practicing the principles of sobriety (12 steps), prepares me for cancer: the diagnosis(s), the treatments, the unknowns. I am finding a new life. What makes daily living with cancer tolerable is having faith and hope for a cure as I confront how I can be of some service to others even at my most vulnerable. I can write a “Love Letter to Life” and share it with you, hoping that someone may find something they need. Yesterday, I cancelled the mammogram because I didn’t want to go out in the storm. Plus, the stitches from surgery are still healing. Better to wait and be safe.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

This reading came up in my emails today: “Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one.”— A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46

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