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Making Me Number One

Making me number one 18/07/2018 It came to me slowly... very, very slowly... How best to show my love for my boys, Stop buying their love with a plethora of toys. Time together is time well employed, Discovering pastimes we all can enjoy. This sounded so easy when I said it to myself, Harder to enact with an empty heart on the shelf. Yes an accident had robbed me of my health, But to not enjoy their company, hurt more than anything else. I was lost in pain, drowning in opiate daze, Unwilling, unhappy, unable to change. My body bent, my mind in a haze, 6 years later its no longer a faze. There was a price for treating myself this way, I just didn’t know it was my kids who would pay. So I made a promise I have kept to this day, I will give the pills, the booze and cigarettes away. Over the next Four years I have worked on myself. I’ve retrieved my crushed heart from the dusty old shelf. I swim and I gym and look after my health, And I spend time with my boys over anyone else.

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Date: 7/29/2018 3:01:00 PM
I have a huge lump in my throat reading your poem Jeff forget material gifts to kids, spending quality time with them is something they will remember forever:-) many congrats on your win:-) hugs jan xx
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Jeff Kantor
Date: 7/29/2018 4:49:00 PM
Thank you so much Jan
Date: 7/29/2018 12:48:00 PM
Jeff, congratulations on your win! Very inspiring and brave. Nicely done :)
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Jeff Kantor
Date: 7/29/2018 4:50:00 PM
Cheers mate much appreciated
Date: 7/28/2018 11:25:00 PM
Congratulations on your win. This is the perfect example! Well done. A remarkable story. :)
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Jeff Kantor
Date: 7/29/2018 4:48:00 AM
As always I really do appreciate you Susan :)
Date: 7/28/2018 5:53:00 PM
Jeff, congratulations on your win.. That is awesome that your life made a turn around. It is ashame it came at a prize, but a bigger prize at the end. Hugs Eve
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Jeff Kantor
Date: 7/29/2018 4:48:00 AM
Thank you so much Eve

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