Taking a Chance
September 2025 | Stories of Gratitude | What's On Your Mind?

Taking a Chance

Little by little, outside help, Steps and faith are helping him overcome his fear of intimacy

I used to call those who drank like me “drinking buddies.” I didn’t know anyone who didn’t drink, nor did I wish to. No one called when I stopped going to the bar due to serious legal troubles that resulted from things I did in a blackout. My name had even been in the local paper. No one called.

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