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Do I Deserve This Gift?

"I'll spend Christmas 2024 with my son, our first Christmas together in six years. ”

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How many of you have been estranged from someone during the holidays? Or forbidden from them? It’s a larger club than you think. Some people have miraculously survived it and even managed to reconnect with someone they love who’s willing to love them back. Ben Gaffaney returns to The Small Bow and shares his version of this story:

“At AA, I shared that …

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Writing about sobriety, poetry, fatherhood, basketball, aging, garden paths, trying to answer the question: What do you want? ATX
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