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To my surprise, Thrift Books has been running an ad on national news sites (NBC, CNN, Slate, Huffington Post, etc.) with my 2007 book in the lead. I'm gobsmacked.

Thrift Books must have read the positive comments on Amazon. Maybe they like the photo on the book cover. Who knows? It came out of the blue.

I have grown since 2007 when I wrote it. If written again, I would include more of my feelings.

"I read your book several years ago and highly recommend it," Connie Flores said.

In third grade, I vowed never to smoke or drink heavily like my alcoholic father. Stuck with it. I come from a long line of alcoholics on both sides of the family.

Cover photos:

That's me at age three. And at 28 on a backpacking trip at Snow Lakes, WA.

LiterateHiker 9 Dec 20
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1

Congratulation on your book. Very nice photos of you. My father was a heavy smoker and died of COPD. I hated tobacco and never smoked.

2

You made a wise decision. My father was an alcoholic and a smokeaholic, so I too have seen the damage it can cause.

3

My parents were both alcoholics. My father died when I was 17 and my sister was 13. I've seen the destruction it causes. It is possible to move forward on a better path in life. Alcoholic has never had much appeal to me although I might drink an amaretto on social occasion.

5

On the recognition that your book has received....congratulations.

4

My brother and I did the same decisions!!!

@Larimar

Hooray!

3

And there you are, literally hiking! Wonderful! Congratulations!
I started to smoke, without inhaling briefly, (behind the proverbial church), as an early teen. I picked up real smoking in my 20's after learning to inhale weed. I stopped at age 31 when simple walk found me out of breath; scary. It's almost 50 years since then.
I just submitted a purchase suggestion to my county library.

@BirdMan1

Thank you for asking your county library to carry my book.

I feel honored.

5

I gave up smoking and drinking in 1992.

5

I decided at a young age not to smoke, drink, drugs. I am 83 and have held fast to my decisions. I have however enjoyed sex.

5

The book sounds amazing. I'm not sure it should be written again but you can pick it up and update so much of it from then on into the now. This would sound like a positive thing to do.

2

Are you the cutie in the pictures?

@Canndue

Yup, that's me at age three.

And at 28 on a backpacking trip at Snow Lakes, WA.

4

Never experienced and of those excesses as a child. Just emotional distancing.

Glad to see your book listed there, even if it doesn’t reflect your current views totally

4

Good decision. I decided not to smoke as an adolescent. Looked nasty. I decided against drugs just to get high. I drink socially, but 2020 has kind of eliminated social events. I have not missed having a beer.*

*These are my decisions and are not meant to criticize others.

7

A big congratulations is in order!! How thrilling for you.😘

@Redheadedgammy

Thank you, dear.

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