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How to Quit Heroin and Stay
Clean for Good |
If you've managed to make
it to day 7 then there's no reason why you can't make it
to year 17. If you did 'everything' you were
instructed to do in my article,
“How to Survive the First 7 Days” and
managed to survive then great! Now you know
that you CAN say no to Heroin. You CAN stop
using and still live to tell about it.
If you forced yourself to get up
to take long fast walks, jogs and runs
then you should be feeling a little better by now. If
you stayed in the hot tub filled with hot hot
water through out the day then you should have
experienced great relief. If you kept your diet light,
took vitamins, Imodium AD at high dosages, drank sips of
water and Gatorade then your digestive system should be
feeling better by now.
If you want to quit heroin, avoid
relapse and stay clean for good then you're going to
have to do whatever it takes to continue fighting this
battle for many months to come. You're going to have
to start doing everything different from how you were
living your life just a few weeks ago. You're going to
have to do the opposite of how you've been living all
these years.
You'll have to create,
design and write your daily, weekly and
monthly master plan and then stick to those
plans for good.
Start by addressing the triggers
which cause you to use and which you will most likely
encounter during the first 3 to 6 months, such as
negative repressed feelings, boredom, the
dope-man, old
dope-friends, familiar places, music, diet, lifestyle,
doing other drugs etc..
Learn how to handle your feelings and emotions
Many people start getting high simply because they have too
many deep emotional problems in their lives but once they stick that
needle in their arm then within seconds, all of those problems seem to
disappear, at least for the moment.
However, since you will no longer be sticking needles in
your arm, chasing dragons nor snorting dope, then you'll
have to find other ways to release these suppressed
feelings and deal with them in a positive and productive
manner.
You'll have to learn how to deal with these feelings of
anger, loss of temper, sadness, loneliness, boredom, guilt, fears and
anxiety in order to keep yourself on the right path.
You can't keep those types of negative feelings
trapped inside of
you for too long or else you'll go crazy, break
down and relapse. You'll have to deal with them.
Many people have found great success in dealing with
their emotional difficulties by talking to
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One way to move forward is by letting go and talking
to someone about it, and deal with it by finding positive
solutions fast.
However, sometimes it does you no good talking
to some one about your problems who has never
been there themselves.
They may be able to sympathize with you but they
won't really understand what you're going
through nor be able to give direction on how to deal with
your issues.
And because of such, sometimes, the best places
to find people to talk to about these problems
are in your local
NA meetings and/or similar
outpatient drug programs or private therapy meetings. |
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In
NA (Narcotics Anonymous), or other
outpatient treatment programs, you'll find several
people going through the same or close to the same type
of problems which you are going through. And many of
them have found solutions that have worked for them by
speaking and listening to other NA group members. There
are also NA drug therapy counselors there who are more
than willing to help you work out your problems in a
private setting as well.
And believe it or not, there are many caring
people who are willing to just listen to you and help
you find solutions.
Whatever you do, don't hold it in. Don't keep your
emotional problems bottled up for too long as this may
cause you to cave and relapse.
Therefore, a vital part of your new master plan
on how to quit heroin, avoid relapse, and stay clean for
good will be to hang around drug-free
people who will be able to better understand what you're
going through and who you can talk to about your problems,
feelings and emotional difficulties.
Whether it be in NA, or private professional counseling
outside of NA, or a drug-free friend who has been
through the same problems that you have been through,
you'll need to let it all out to someone.
You can start off by going to NA meetings or an
outpatient program just to
attend, sit there and listen to others. If you want
people to listen to you then you are going to have to
develop the courtesy and patience to listen to others
first. You'll have your chance.
If you begin to become concerned about other
peoples problems then other people will become concerned about
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A word of caution on attending NA meetings:
Although it is better to be around users who want to
quit rather than old dope friends who continue to use,
'do not' meet with NA attendees outside of meetings, in
the street, at the mall, or at a coffee shop etc.
Many times, there are people there who are attending
these types of meetings just to satisfy loved ones or
are required to do so as part of their court/probation
agreement.
Many times, those same people will seek out the
weakest one in the group and then try to get together
with them outside of NA meetings. They may just want to
talk, hang out or find out if you know where to score
some dope. And as a result they both will fail and
relapse. It happens. All it takes is one bad apple to
cause others to fall.
However, to be fair, it is very possible that you can
and will find some genuine people in NA who really do
want to turn their lives around and those are the types
of people that I would love to be around – people who
want to turn their lives around for good and go all the
way. Those are the best types of friends to have.
Attending NA, group meetings or counseling, every day or
every other day and learning how to deal with and handle
day to day feelings should definitely be part of your
master plan on how to quit heroin, avoid relapse, and stay clean for
good.
Fight against those thoughts of getting high.
Relapse is most likely to occur within the first
3 to 6 months.
Experts say that true recovery begins after the recovering addict has been clean for 1
year.
For the first 3 to 6 months you will be
bombarded with the thoughts of giving up and
getting high possibly on a day to day basis.
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Don't put up with those 'thoughts
of getting high' coming into your mind. You must do your
best daily to fight against those thoughts of
turning back or else they will win, you will
lose, and you will fail. Then you'll be right back where
you started - heroin slavery.
"Someone says, "Well, I cannot help but think about some
of the places I used to go and some of the things I used
to do. I cannot help thinking about some of the old,
rotten, corrupt things I have seen and done. Sometimes I
start thinking about them." Friend, you cannot keep them
from coming into your mind, but you do not have to think
about them. Thinking is a process. The thought that
jumps into your mind is only the temptation." LDA |
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"We have used this illustration many times, 'You cannot
keep a bird from landing on your head, but you can keep
him from building a nest there!' These negative, filthy
thoughts, these bad things from your past, you cannot
prevent their being brought to mind from time to time,
but as soon as you realize what is happening and
recognize the thought that is crossing your mind,
you can sure begin to war against it."
LDA
"...you need a garbage can in your mind.
Someone might say, "Most people's minds are garbage
cans." I didn't say your mind should be a garbage can -
I said you need a garbage can in your mind... throw
everything in it that needs to be put in it. Put the lid
on and fasten the lock down. Try to keep patching the
holes when they sprout up every once in a while... you
just need to keep it sealed up! When you find something
coming into your mind that needs to be deposited there,
you need to jerk the lid open just fast enough to throw
it in and slam the lid back down, before anything gets
out." LDA
Don't let those thoughts linger in your mind not even
for a second. When those thoughts of doing dope (heroin)
come into your mind, you have to say NO,
shake your head, and then throw them
into that imaginary garbage can and keep them there.
It's a constant battle day in and day out but the more
you keep fighting those thoughts then
the easier that battle will become as time goes on. It
wont be easy but it can be done.
Change the type of music you listen to.
If you
want to quit heroin, avoid relapse, and stay clean for good then
change the type of music you listen to.
If you want to change the person you are then
change the type of music you take into yourself.
Bad music draws in negative energy, negative
influence and negative memories which will keep you down and out.
Rap, Hip Hop, Rock, Classic Rock, Reggaeton,
R&B, Techno and alternative music was purposely
designed and created to promote drugs, drug
addiction, sex, lust, perversion, vanity, violence,
aggression, and depression within those who
listen to such music. And in time, that music
will help influence you to transform you into
what that music represents.
“Thus, what you listen to literally
forms what you become”, LDA. |
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Good music put forth by good people will drive those
negative influences away and create positive energy and
positive influence which help you feel better and lift
you up. You can test this yourself and 'feel'
the differences in the energies put forth from the
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See how you feel after listening to rap, hip hop,
classic rock, R&B, techno or whatever it is that you
listen to now.
Then
switch to
oldies 50's, 60's, the
Rocky
theme songs, Elvis songs like
American Trilogy,
You Game Me a
Mountain,
Bridge Over Troubled
Waters,
Suspicious Minds, Always On My
Mind,
Pretty Woman,
Cara Mia, 9 To 5 by Dolly Parton,
I
Believe,
Impossible Dream, My Special Angel,
It's Now Or Never,
Love Can Build A Bridge,
Dancing Queen, Lion Sleeps Tonight,
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,
Stop In The Name Of Love,
Great Balls Of Fire,
He's A Rebel, My Way,
Runaway,
You'll Never Walk Alone,
Burning Love,
End of the World,
and many many more.
Good clean positive music will help you make it through
the day, each and every day. It will give you the energy
and strength you'll need to get up, quit dope and change.
Change what you take into yourself and you'll change
what comes out. If you want to quit heroin,
avoid relapse, and
stay clean for good then change the type of music you
listen to. “Thus, what you listen to literally
forms what you become”, LDA.
Separate yourself from the dope-man and all of your dope-friends
This is a
must. In order to stay clean, you will have to
separate yourself from all of your dope friends
and anyone who uses any
types of drugs.
If you want to quit heroin, avoid relapse and stay clean for
good then you'll have to cut them off - all of
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It doesn't matter how well they treat you. It doesn't
matter if he or she is your best friend. It doesn't
even matter if she's your girlfriend or if he's your
boyfriend.
If he or she gets high and is not ready to
change then you must depart from them.
All it takes is one simple phone call and you'll blow
it. Just their voice, their energy, their influence,
will remind you of how good you used to feel from that
heroin rush. Then you'll begin to dwell on those
thoughts and then just like that, within minutes, you're
gone, out the door to your friends house to get high.
We have 2 types of friends; those who bring out the best
in us and those who bring out the worst in us.
Being around any of your dope-friends will only bring
out the worst in you. And in time, you will end
up right back where you started. Cut them off
completely or they will become a hindrance to
your master plan and your recovery.
Delete their phone numbers from your cell phone and get
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If you want to quit heroin, avoid relapse, and stay clean for
good then separate yourself from amongst them.
When the time is right, Life will send you the type of
friends that you can become to someone else. If you want
good, drug-free, clean and decent, moral friends then you
must become a good, drug-free, clean and decent, moral
friend.
There is no way that you're going to become a
drug-free friend by continuing to hang around friends
who do drugs. My mother always told me, “tell me
who you hang with and I'll tell you who you are”.
How right she was. If you want to quit heroin
and 'stay clean for good' then separate yourself from
anyone and everyone who uses any type of drugs.
Stay far away from the wrong places.
You may be anti-social now. But once you start
to shine, you'll want to go out and have some
fun. Just be careful.
You may want to quit heroin, stay clean, and
then go out with the fella's to smoke weed,
drink beers and hit parties. Do that, and you
will fail.
You may want to start going out to the clubs,
strip joints, bars, the corners where the
fella's hang out. Do this, and thou shalt surely
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That wont work. There will always
be demons
there waiting for you. Those old dark places are no place for the new you.
Nothing good can come from there. The energy and
influence being put forth from those places and people
will destroy you. The environment and the music, in time,
will draw you right back into that same old dope trap.
The familiar music alone will bring back memories of the
good old days when the only thing on your mind was
'feeling that rush from your first fix'. Before you know
it, those memories and those feelings will rush in,
overtake you, and draw you right back into heroin
slavery.
If you want to quit heroin, avoid relapse, and stay clean for
good then stay away from all of the wrong places.
Stay away from the wrong places and start hanging out in the
right places. The saying is true – There's
no place like home. If you have no business being out in
the street then the best place for you to be is at home
with your family.
If home is too close to the dope spot and keeps causing
you to fail and relapse then move.
Relocate and move.
Relocation has always been a powerful maneuver to break free
from heroin and a deterrent from going
back to your old ways, old places and old friends.
'Relocation' is a great way to start your life all
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Quit and stay away from ALL drugs.
Unfortunately, too many people would like to
quit heroin but continue to keep smoking their
weed or taking their lesser evil opiates such as
Xanax and Valiums.
However, the best way to quit heroin and
stay clean for good is to quit and stay away
from all drugs once and for all,
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Weed, hash, cocaine, crack, LSD, meth, mescaline,
ecstasy, heroin, all lesser evil opiates, methadone, suboxone, pain killers,
depressants, steroids, strong alcohol and/or anything
else that causes your mind and your thinking to become
distorted in any way, shape or form. Your mind must
remain clear at all times in order to stay on guard.
If you want to quit heroin, avoid relapse, and stay clean for good then
quit all drugs and stay away from ALL drugs for good.
Don't try to convince yourself that there's no danger or
risk of relapse in doing other types of drugs.
Just say NO to ALL drugs from here on out and I
promise you, your life will change. You will quit heroin
and stay clean for good.
Keep your self busy each and every day.
If you
want to quit heroin, avoid relapse and stay clean for good then
you will have to do your best to keep yourself
busy each and every day.
One of the most important things that you will
be doing to help you quit heroin and stay clean
for good will be restoring your body and health
with the help of exercise.
One of the best things you can do in your life to
start your days off right, (and from hear on out),
will be to
join a gym and start working out
first thing in the morning Monday through
Friday. Rebuild your body.
This is by far one of the best ways to continue the
battle against your heroin addiction and to keep
you on the right path.
This is one of the best ways to get back your
health, self-worth and self-confidence.
Do it right and start off light. First buy a
Muscle and Fitness magazine at your
local convenience store.
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Start reading to educate yourself on nutrition,
supplements and exercises. You become what you
read. You become whatever you take into yourself so
start taking in good, healthy, positive
things into your mind. It's time to get your health
back.
Depending on what time you'll have to go to work, go
look for work or go to school, start waking up early
every morning around 5, 6, or 7am. Get dressed, grab your mp3
player and head to the gym! Start off light,
working each body part 1 time per week. Here's a quick and
simple exercise routine to help you get through the
first 3-4 weeks.
Monday: Chest exercises - Abs - Cardio
Tuesday: Bicep exercises - Cardio
Wednesday: Triceps exercises - Abs -
Cardio
Thursday: Shoulder exercises - Cardio
Friday: Back and legs exercises -
short, high rep Abs - Cardio
Saturday: Take a long walk in the park.
Sunday: Rest
When your stomach begins to come back to life, then begin a healthy life long diet
in order to provide the proper nutrients needed for your body and muscular
development. If you want to quit heroin, avoid relapse, and stay clean
for good then joining your local gym and/or working out
at home, must become part of your master plan.
Plan and eat a healthy diet and take plenty of vitamins.
Once you've been clean for a few weeks and
feeling better physically then you'll have to start
finding ways to keep yourself busy during the day. And
the best way to keep yourself busy and out of
trouble is to 'work' and work hard. (This is
how you'll also be able to pay for your gym membership.)
You may already have a job. And if you do, then for the
next several months, it might
be best for you to let your mother, father or
another trusted family member deposit your checks for you and
hold on to your atm card as well in
order to avoid the temptation to buy drugs.
This deterring strategy works and helps you to save
money as well.
Sometimes, the best way to eliminate the temptation is
to cut off all access to the source which in this case is
money. No money, no drugs. Have a trusted family member
help you manage your money so that you wont waste it on
any type of drugs.
If you don't have a job then the best thing to do with
your time, (after you finished your morning workout) is to spend
9am to 12pm looking for work. Take a lunch break. Then
go back out to look for work from 1pm till 5pm. Sooner
or later you're bound to find work. But for now,
looking for work will become your full time job.
You can always fill out applications at your local
Walmart, fast food places like McDonalds, stores like 7-11, shopping mall stores or any
other large clothing or department store.
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Seek, and you will find work. Try to find
the hardest labor job possible. Working
hard all day long is one of the best ways to keep your
mind and body busy and also keep you out of trouble.
This will also help you to enter back into society.
Then after work, or after a long hard day of looking for
work, head home for dinner or go straight to
your NA meetings. I realize that not everyone
needs to attend NA meetings, but for many recovering
addicts, NA has been a life saver and a great way to
fellowship with other x-addicts who are trying to turn
their lives around just like you are doing right now.
During the week, it's best to be out and about
only if and when you have important things to do
such as going to the gym in the morning; going
to school; going to work or looking for work; attending
NA meetings; visiting other drug-free
family members and friends for dinner; enrolling
yourself and taking new classes at your local college;
volunteering at your local homeless shelter, etc. And then
come home early in the evening to be home with
the family.
While at home, you can spend the rest of the evening
with the family watching good, clean, inspirational movies, listening to
good, clean, decent music, attending to your favorite
pass time hobbies, or taking up a new hobby such as
learning how to play a musical instrument.
Always have things to do at home. Don't let yourself
become bored while at home or at any time. The
best places to be during the week is at work, working
hard or safe at home. This will help you to
avoid relapse, stay clean and stay out of trouble.
Save your clean, fun activities for the weekends
such as:
Going shopping or walk around in the mall on Friday
nights; going out for dinner with family and friends;
going out to an
oldies 50's 60's music show with the family, watching
family movies at home with your
family; bowling; go kart racing; batting cages; hiking;
mounting climbing; horse back riding; biking; taking
long walks; playing sports; going to see a baseball
game, football game, basketball game or a sport that
you've never seen before; visiting amusement parks;
zoos; water slides; visiting art museums; going to the beach,
and whatever other clean fun activities you can think
of.
Your master daily plan could look something like this:
Monday thru Friday
1.Go to the Gym first thing in the morning
2.Head out to school, work or go out and look for work.
3.Lunch – short fast walk.
4.Head back to school, work or go out and look for work.
6.Head home for dinner or go straight to NA meetings or
outpatient counseling.
7.Go home for the evening or visit a drug-free family
member or friend for dinner
8.Go home. Attend to your hobbies, learn an instrument
or work on writing your life story.
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Friday evening: Go out for dinner or to
the mall with drug free family members or friends.
Saturday: Plan and do fun activities with your
drug-free loved ones for most of the day and evening as
well.
Sunday: Rest. Watch football or
basketball. Attend to
your hobbies. Watch an inspirational movie or good clean
TV. Learn to play an instrument or work on writing your
life story.
You can adjust the fine details according to your own
wants and needs. Just remember to try to keep your
activities clean and fun. As long as you're
working hard and not wasting your money on heroin then
you should have enough cash to go out and enjoy life the way
life was meant to be enjoyed.
And when you do go out to have fun with your 'drug-free'
loved ones, try to spend less money on yourself and more
money on them. You've put them through a lot of pain,
and it's time to start making things right. Offering
heart felt gestures, special gifts and surprises to the
ones you've hurt can really help to repair the damage and rebuild relationships.
Create, design and plan your future
Don't
dwell on your past. Instead, focus on creating,
designing and planning your future.
Many people don't realize this but you have the
power and the ability to create your own future
with a pen and paper. Write down your life's
goals and dreams with as much detail as you can
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I'm not talking about buying a Lamborghini Diablo, owning a billion
dollar mansion, and earning a trillion dollars per year
with bonuses. I'm speaking of setting realistic
goals and dreams that will help you to better your life
and the lives of all those around you and to enable
you to help and serve others to the best of your
abilities.
Then create and design a step-by-step plan that
will help you achieve those goals and dreams as
fast as you can. 'Think' hard on your goals and
plans and then execute your master plan with
full force by taking action and doing all of those steps which
you have written down on paper as fast as you can.
In time, with patience and hard work, it will come to
past. You may not get exactly what you want, but
if you plan well and attack your plan with full force
then you'll come pretty close to getting what you want
(as long as its good) and more importantly, what you
need. So start creating your future by writing it down
on paper and then start doing it. There is a wonderful
life out there waiting for you. All you have to do now is go
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While you're writing, you can also start writing
about yourself. You can start writing about how
your life used to be as a heroin addict, what you did to
quit heroin, stay clean, and turn your life
around once and for all.
Then, once you're done writing your true life story, you can
publish and post your writings online, on a blog, in an ebook
or on a website for all others to read and admonish.
You can use your life and your written words to
help change the lives of others who desperately
need to read real success stories about people like you, in
order to give them the hope and strength they'll need to
conquer their own heroin demons in their lives.
You really can make a difference in another persons life
just by what you write and publish for all others to
see.
I'm doing the same exact thing right now, and so far, my
writings, my articles, and my 'words' have helped change
the lives of many all across the globe. And I can assure
you, that if you do everything that I have
written here in this article and in my other
articles, then your life will change as well.
Everything will change. All you have to do is just do it!
Always have a plan of escape.
Many
experts agree that sooner or later, you will be
faced with temptation or unforeseen
circumstances that may cause you to break down, relapse and
use.
Therefore, you should always have an
escape plan ready, written down and
kept on your person at all times. Read it daily
as a reminder. Keep it engraved within your
heart and your mind.
However, since your past relationship with
heroin has always been a love/hate relationship
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a love and a lust for heroin, but a hate for
what it has done to your life, then there can
only be one solid principle that will work all
of the time when executed with full force.
And that principle to remember is "FLEE!
Flee
from heroin".
Flee from the temptation of using heroin
as you would flee from the seduction of the
worst type of woman or the worst type of man.
Flee and run for your life.
Say NO to that enticing temptation for
that heroin rush! Turn your back
and flee! Run the other way!
Run like Forest Gump. Run
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And finally my brethren, if you do fail, mess
up and relapse even one time, don't think of it as a
total failure, yet don't let it slide as if nothing
happened. Instead, get mad, get real mad at heroin, more
than with yourself. She, heroin, just knocked you down
good.
But instead of staying down for the count and allowing
heroin to creep back into your life to destroy you once
again, GET UP, pick yourself up, dust yourself
off and keep pressing on with full force. Put that
failure behind you and keep moving
forward.
Don't allow that one failure to become an excuse to
return to your old ways. Instead, learn from this and use it as a lesson and
as a reminder that you must always be on guard for those
heroin demons. And make sure you don't ever allow
yourself to slip up again.
Then quickly contact your quitting buddy, your
parents, your family members,
me, or a drug-free friend. Talk to
someone about what your going through and how
it directly or indirectly had a part in causing you to
mess up so that it wont happen again. Get up,
reach out for help and get right back on 'the right
path' as quickly as possible.
If you want to quit heroin, avoid relapse, and stay clean for
good then follow these 10 commandments
from here on out:
1.Thou shalt learn how to handle and deal with thy feelings and
emotions.
2.Thou shalt fight daily against those thoughts of getting
high.
3.Thou shalt change the type of music thou listenest to.
4.Thou shalt separate thyself from the dope-man and all
thy dope-friends.
5.Thou shalt stay away from the all the wrong and dark places.
6.Thou shalt quit and stay away from ALL drugs.
7.Thou shalt keep thyself busy each and every day.
8.Thou shalt create, design and plan thy future.
9.Thou shalt always have a plan of escape.
10.If thou shalt fall then thou shalt get up quickly and
keep pressing on with full force.
This is how you quit heroin, avoid relapse, and stay clean for
good. This is how I continue to stay clean each
and every day from everything. I stopped listening to
rap, hip hop, and classic rock music a long time
ago.
I have no fellowship with any one who does drugs,
unless of course, you're trying to turn your life
around. Then I will gladly help you. I
stay away from the clubs, the bars, the strip joints and all
of those dark places. I don't do any kind of drugs whatsoever. I
don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do anything of the
kind. I simply do not want to live like that ever again.
And if you will keep and follow these commandments
then I can assure you, you
will quit heroin, you will avoid relapse, and you will stay clean once and for all.
You will turn your life around,
you will be free and
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