Patience

Sam lived in Morgantown, West Virginia where he taught Economics at West Virginia University.  He traveled almost two hours north every Sunday to attend his AA home group half an hour north of Pittsburgh.  He’d gotten sober there twenty years earlier. 

“You look great!” Billie said as Sam walked in.

“Where’s the rest of you?” Trevor joked.

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“How much did you lose?” Roger asked.

“Eighty-two pounds,” Sam said.  “It took me over a year.”  Cara had said Sam was starving himself again.  Had she just assumed that? People who gossip almost always dwell on the negative, real or imagined.

Sam added, “The hardest part was being patient. Those starvation diets are miserable, but you drop the weight.  Losing a little at a time takes some serious patience.”

Today I’ll be patient with my progress.

Dogged Determination ©2018 by Ken Montrose

Dogged Determination is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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