The Empty Page for Special Talents and Abilities – Nancy C.
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A blank page in a baby book: "Special Talents and Abilities." Not a single word. Nancy C. spent decades trying to fill that void with a "slut mobile" Datsun, a career as a restaurant manager, and a string of violent men. She describes herself as a "defect aggravator," a woman who lived as a "shell on the outside" while remaining "misshapen on the inside." From the haze of spiked punch at twenty to the wreckage of a marriage fueled by rage and "justified" resentments, she admits she had to be bludgeoned into humility.
She recalls the gritty reality of her early sobriety—the bologna sandwiches and cigarettes her sponsor insisted on so she wouldn't break. Nancy moves from the "bondage of self" to a place where she can laugh at the tragedy of her past, finally finding a Higher Power not in a whisper, but in the loud, messy wreckage of a life finally being made honest.
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