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Message from: rabecca - 29 Apr 04

Subject: My alcoholic Mum....(and the best one in the world)

My mum was an alcoholic. For 6 years of her life she was sober and she was the most amazing person you could ever know she went through SO MUCH!! her childhood was horrible i mean really bad like worse than you could ever imagin.Things didnt get better for my mum. Things kept happening to her and to our family. One day she couldnt take any more and she was back on the alcohol - they say once your back on you dont get off. I dont believe that! You can do it its just the hardest thing ever!!! My mum just didnt manage it this time. Things got worse, i looked after her and kept her secrate and finaly persuaded her to get help. She failed at giving up for the million'th time and one day a couple of months ago she died of an overdose of drugs mixed with alcohol. People sometimes think that she was a bad mum so i've looked around at everyone elses and i thought she understood me more than anyone else in the world and loved me and my sister more than you could imagin. Anyone who ever met her said she was the most amazing person they ever knew. I just want people to know that being an alcoholic or a drug adict doesnt make you a bad person!!!! I know miss her so much and i know she can see me now. I luv ya mum!!!!!<3

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Stay strong girl! Remember her for who she was when sober, from the sounds of it, really great!

Subject:Alcohol does not make you a bad person

I've also lost someone to alcohol and the hardest part is trying to get across to people that they were a good person and a good mother. My Cousin left a 5 year old boy. She was an amazing person, before alcohol she was intelligent, funny, pretty and very caring. Alcohol put her into a spiral, I could still see her beautiful spirit but it was buried below the pains of why she was drinking. She too went through some tramas that I can't even imagine and it makes me cry when i think about what happened to her.

Please NEVER let anyone tell you she was a bad person.

As long as you remember the good times that you had it will always be a comfort. I do know it's hard. But I can always smile when I think about stupid things that we did.

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