Post B #4

Dear Anthony,

You are changing as I continue to read your memoir. I congratulate you on overcoming your addictions and on realizing that a drugf-ree life is a better life. You are fixing your relationships, building new ones, saving money, and becoming a more reliable member in the band. In the past you realized that drugs are bad and that they were having a big effect on your relationships, but I doubt that you knew at the time how much better things would be if you were clean. You have changed for the better, but I don't know how much faith I have that you will stay clean. You have not been able to comit to long term things in the past, let's see if you can now.

Anthony is getting better, just like me. I am getting better at math because I have an A, and Anthony is getting better with keeping clean, and he would have an A at the moment since he is clean. Sadly, rehab today has a bad connotation because the media portrays the people that go there as scum that are better off dead. But in reality, they are people just like you and me that made a bad decistion and are unable to stop using. Anthony has the same thought about rehab, that he was too good for it, but really he fit in perfectly.

"I got on the plane to go home, riding a whole new wave of enthusiasm for my life. I decided to write a song about my monthlong experiance of going to meetings, getting clean, and winning this battle of addiction" (200). This quote explains how Anthony felt when he was finally clean for the first time. This quote, to an extent, explains the entire rest of his "first sobriety", until he unfortunately lets loose and goes on a drug rampage that lasts a few years.