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Host of Family Dinner on Magnolia Network
"After so many years, it's impossible to separate anything out. Recovery is my life and my life is recovery. I tell anyone who will listen that life is about human doing for others. By the end of 1991, I was a user of people and a taker of things and I was dying. I just didn't see it. Now my life is full from when I rise to when I go to bed, all thanks to the people who have shared so much with me over the years, loving me until I could love myself. Thanks to other people, I actually have a life and most importantly, the opportunity to give back every minute of the day. Other people gave me the ability to match every curve ball and heartache that life throws at me with choices about how I react. I can never repay that debt, but I try, by passing it all on to others. I am so grateful to be an active human doing, not a sedentary human being. I never saw that gift coming. Never asked for it either. And now I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world."