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That's the Ticket

A speeding ticket taught her something about her character defects

Ouch! A third speeding ticket in three months, this one not photo radar – easier to ignore – but a real live citation handed to me by a real cop. This event, coupled with a dream that night in which a fourth speeding violation resulted in my driver's license and car being confiscate on the spot, led me to wonder whether my Higher Power was trying to get my attention. Was my habitual speeding part of my disease of alcoholism?

I decided to talk about it with my sponsor. She asked me to do an inventory around my speeding and challenged me to simply start driving within the posted... Login to read more
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