My girlfriend is planning on throwing me a party in October to celebrate my being out for a year. It'll be the longest I've been out since I was nine. My last longest time was six months and 13 days. The nice thing about this time is that it will never end. The only illegal thing I've done since I've been out has been to break the speed limit. I have no desire to use drugs, smoke, chew, do snuff or anything else I used to do. The only addiction that I have now is working out, and that's great.

—T.W.

Received in September 2007 from a graduate of our Relational Culture Strategies training at CRCI.