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Happy New Year to all my fellow Ex’ers! I started smoking in 2009 (some kind of weird mid-life crisis, what a dork) and I just now realized that this is the first new year I’ve begun since then without a cigarette.

Wow, am I grateful. Thank you to everyone here for helping me and supporting me. Lives are being saved and suffering reduced because of the caring people here at Ex who are always willing to give their time to help. Seems such a quiet thing, doesn’t it, to care and support? But it’s heroic.

More learning, more growing, more caring and laughter and joy and gratitude — my wish for all. Oh, and NOPE!! Yeah, baby.

Cheers, Terry 232 DOF

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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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