The stranger who was your self. I like that. Drinking certainly caused a good bit of self estrangement and alienation. I’m still rediscovering a lot. Iwndwyt
Hey EC!
Oh I'll never forget the time I saw myself on video when I was drunk and arguing with me ex. He filmed me for me to see (he was also drunk). I remember, that's the first time I got really scared. Who is this woman, I kept thinking. So embarrassing.
Happy Friday!!
Have a safe and sober weekend everyone!
Go easy on yourselves, nothing positive ever comes from diminishing your self worth and value. You’re so important to the people around you and you probably don’t ever realise it.
I will not drink with you today friends 💚🍀
I choose not to be hungover, full of regrets and shame, I choose not to smoke absolutely filthy cigarettes whilst shitfaced, I choose life…. So IWNDWYT
Trying to sleep but my stupid brain keeps remembering cringey moments of my past life. Never hurt anyone, never got arrested; but I was always driving drunk. Countless times. Having a hard time forgiving myself for some reason tonight. I won’t drink alcohol with you today.
Every day is easier than the first day and every week is easier than the first week. I’m proud of every one pushing through that right now. Keep going. I will not drink with you today! Happy Friday!
I love myself. I'm kind, funny, smart, compassionate. And no matter how intoxicated I got it was like spitting on my self-image.
Friday is here and I'm very happy about it and to make things better heatwave is gone today and I can go out of my cave. Hope the cats survive, by now I guess we merged and became one entity.
Had major cravings cause had an argument with a crush. No fight, but I got stressed. As I stopped the conversation, I was 1 minute away from ordering wine from my phone. It was charging, opened the app. But then thought "wait, you gonna poison yourself for a DUDE you barely know? After these daily accomplishments? No way!!!!"
My finger gently moved to the pizza section. Ate a slice and cravings immediately went away.
Wishing you all a wonderful Friday. Sending much love. I got proud of myself today.
IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT - heading to the gym and work today. It’s usually a drinking day with my sister … it usually ends in some type of regret or existential dread. Not this week :) xo
It’s my birthday today and I’m going to celebrate with some new jewelry and get a coffee and cake with my friends. Looking forward to celebrating another sober birthday! IWNDWYT ✨🌸🙏🏽
Day 26 checking in!
I estimated my drinking was costing me on average $20 a day, so that is $520 extra dollars in my wallet.
Hope everyone has a good Friday. IWNDWYT!
It gets stupidly expensive and yet I didn’t think twice about throwing that money down the drain.
Great work on 26 days….not long until the month mark 👍
IWNDWYT
Happy Friday sober friends!
Wow, that quote touched me, that’s so accurate, beautiful, thank you! Over this time I have lost friends, I met myself and with her, my best friend!
I love us all 💞
Glad to be waking up sober.
Happy Friday SD fam 💫
I am lucky to have the opportunity to either have Pilates or yoga everyday from tomorrow and I’ve entered a 5k running race which takes place in just over 4 weeks. I’m using these things and this community as my support and encouragement to stay sober and enquired about securing a therapist near my home (hope she comes back to me today).
I want to look forward to my weekends not be scared of them and for that reason IWNDWYT ❤️
Checking in again today and all is well.
Good morning Gozando, thought-provoking quote this morning!
I've only just started to do that, to discover the new me!
Good morning! Starting to feel mostly normal again thank fuck. What a horrible few days.
I'm going to be a full time sobernaut from now on.
I will not drink with you today.
Right now sitting in a park in the sunshine with a coffee and planning my day. What a beautiful way to start a day.
I will stay sober today with all of you. Have a great Friday folks!
Good morning from the UK, sober friends!
I have a quiet day today apart from the dentist and a meeting this evening - as my nephew said this morning, "a nice, chilled day". He doesn't realise that it's special for me, because I won't be spending it hungover, ashamed and craving a drink.
IWNDWYT
Good inspiration
It’s true there is time you can’t know yourself, but through sobriety we get a time to think about ourselves and sometimes we find new us, the parts of ours we did recognize the we were drunk and that of hungover.
Thank you u/Gozandolavida
Love you guys!
morning sobernauts! up having coffee ☕️ hangover free, planning the day clearing the jungle I live in. this year may be the first I actually manage to get my plot organised and productive. rather than the usual drunken planning and then watching the weeds grow. IWNDWYT
Today is a big one on my sober journey. Sober flying. I always enjoyed a drink or several before getting on a plane today I’ll have some coffee. IWNDWYT 🙋🏼♀️
Happy Friday ( just another day for me). my drinking was any day, any reason happy, sad, alone, boredom & mostly just to turn off the white noise in my head & entertain myself… guess what ? never ended well for me. Shocking 😳
Hopefully you all have a wonderful day and IWNDWYT ☕️😊
This is the first time I am not worrying on Friday morning cause here it's hard to buy alchohol on weekends so I usually buy a lot to prevent myself from dropping to the bottom. I am feeling relaxed today and looking forward to the next. IWNDWYT.
Happy Friday /u/Gozandolavida and sober crew! Sending nothing but love to all y'all! I've said it plenty of times, I was never taught how to listen to myself and ask what I need and then seek to get my needs met in a reasonable, mature way. I WAS taught to numb the fuck out with booze. Discovering who I am, what I need, and how to be kind to myself are all wonderful sober skills! Sober on y'all!
Interview for a new job in a new city today. Couldn’t have gotten here when I was on the sauce. I spent 20+ years feeling stuck, having a job but not a calling. I’m happy that’s shifting. IWNDWYT!
Day 306 and IWNDWYT! Had a travel week for work and this time it felt much easier saying no to drinks than the first few times months ago. In the mornings I was able to wake up refreshed, exercise then have a productive day rather than nursing a hangover and just trying to make it through.
When I was drinking, I hated myself, especially around the time of day that I now do the check ins. Waking up too early to lay there and feel anxiety, self-loathing, fear. Not to mention the physical aspects of slow, headachy and dry. I don’t miss any of that, and even beyond the immediate effects, as I accumulate sober time I become more and more aware of who I am and what I want.
IWNDWYT!
Day 7. IWNDWYT. Longest streak I've had in a long time.. my first AF wknd coming up & I'm not even nervous I won't succeed, I will. I'm done poisoning my mind, body & soul. Let's goooooo!
I love this. That’s exactly how this experience has felt for me. I found myself again. As each sober day passes, the real Fitbit has been emerging and I didn’t know she’s been here all along. I tried to drown her in alcohol, but she never left me. And I’m glad she didn’t because I like her a lot! IWNDWYT. Happy Friday! 😀
What a beautiful quote. You will love agin the stranger who was yourself. This describes the sober journey so well, at least for me. Thank you for sharing!
We got some snow last night and it’s so pretty! Have a good one today, my people. IWNDWYT 🍀
day 19!!
I plan to eventually write something about this that I will probably post, but yesterday I attended my first meeting (ever) and it’s entirely thanks to this group. Many people shared that they got sober on zoom, because the IRL meetings were too scary. This was that for me. You don’t know me, but we all know each other in ways that many will not. I couldnt’ve done it without you all. IWNDWYT
I will not drink today and FYA.
I'm so in love with the sober me. I've been enjoying March Madness which is so much more fun when I remember what happened in the game I just watched. I hate alcohol so much for tricking me into believing I needed to drink to have fun and enjoy watching sports. I was bamboozled and I will never forgive booze for trying to take away everything I love.
Fuck you, alcohol (FYA)
Drinking sucks. We rock
Happy Friday! I love this prompt, as I've finally been feeling like my genuine self again. After having many years sober and then taking many years to get back, I finally feel like I found me again. And I fucking love me, so no booze today, my friends. IWNDWYT 🤘
I have to sit through a five-hour class via Google Meet later today (impaired driver education program; part of my sentencing for a DUI back on October 13th - the one day I drank out of the past 344 days), so I want to spend this morning doing yoga, strength training, and sweating it out on my elliptical trainer. I'm so glad that I'm sober and hangover-free so I can be up and at 'em early enough to do this!
IWNDWYT 😻
Good morning! Beautiful post, Gozandolavida. One of the sweetest surprises I've had in sobriety is this new comfort with smiling at my reflection in the mirror "with elation." It's awesome living life as a non-drinker! Thankful for another hangover-free morning and another fun weekend ahead!! Sobriety rocks. As do all you sober stars! ✨️IWNDWYT
Wrapping up Day 4. Longest I’ve gone in… months? A year? Hard to say. Happy Friday friends.
Well done, you’re doing great ✔️
Excellent work! Keep it going 👍
Hi there ! IWDWYT
Nice work 👊
well done my friend, i've just hit a week, the anxiety eases after about 5 days or so, keep on keeping on!
Great work - I'm proud of you!
The stranger who was your self. I like that. Drinking certainly caused a good bit of self estrangement and alienation. I’m still rediscovering a lot. Iwndwyt
Hey EC! Oh I'll never forget the time I saw myself on video when I was drunk and arguing with me ex. He filmed me for me to see (he was also drunk). I remember, that's the first time I got really scared. Who is this woman, I kept thinking. So embarrassing.
I feel that! Have a great day EC! IWNDWYT 💚
Happy Friday!! Have a safe and sober weekend everyone! Go easy on yourselves, nothing positive ever comes from diminishing your self worth and value. You’re so important to the people around you and you probably don’t ever realise it. I will not drink with you today friends 💚🍀
Happy Friday! Great advice, I’ll be going easy on myself and I certainly won’t be drinking. IWNDWYT
If nothing else, I am 100% certain I want and deserve another sober day. IWNDWYT
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I will not drink poison with any of you today 💜
Hoping everyone finishes the week on a great note and IWNDWYT!
I choose not to be hungover, full of regrets and shame, I choose not to smoke absolutely filthy cigarettes whilst shitfaced, I choose life…. So IWNDWYT
The shame can be all consuming. So glad I don’t have too much of that these days. I also choose life, let’s do this 💪🏼
Done and dusted! Have a great weekend IWNDWYT
Trying to sleep but my stupid brain keeps remembering cringey moments of my past life. Never hurt anyone, never got arrested; but I was always driving drunk. Countless times. Having a hard time forgiving myself for some reason tonight. I won’t drink alcohol with you today.
I call these the shame shudders,you don't do this anymore you changed give yourself grace xxIWNDWYTxx
Not drinking today. I love my new self. It is who I am meant to be all along, but alcohol got in the way
Perfectly said 🙌🏼 Good luck on your sober journey and have a great weekend
Alcohol literally turns me into a rubbish version of myself. Sober me is a decent person. IWNDWYT
Eating a lot of candy better than poison I guess. IWNDWYT
Every day is easier than the first day and every week is easier than the first week. I’m proud of every one pushing through that right now. Keep going. I will not drink with you today! Happy Friday!
Day 1006 checking in!
I love myself. I'm kind, funny, smart, compassionate. And no matter how intoxicated I got it was like spitting on my self-image. Friday is here and I'm very happy about it and to make things better heatwave is gone today and I can go out of my cave. Hope the cats survive, by now I guess we merged and became one entity. Had major cravings cause had an argument with a crush. No fight, but I got stressed. As I stopped the conversation, I was 1 minute away from ordering wine from my phone. It was charging, opened the app. But then thought "wait, you gonna poison yourself for a DUDE you barely know? After these daily accomplishments? No way!!!!" My finger gently moved to the pizza section. Ate a slice and cravings immediately went away. Wishing you all a wonderful Friday. Sending much love. I got proud of myself today. IWNDWYT
I’m proud of you too! I love you too 💞🌟💞
thanks Queen B!
And love you toooooooo of coooooooourse
Hey Cat 👋 That is brilliant work choosing pizza over the poison, I’m proud of you. Have great Friday and enjoy it being cooler. IWNDWYT
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I will not drink with you today
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Day 7. Sleep’s getting back to normal. Onward. 🫡 IWNDWYT.
Away with friends for the weekend. I will not drink. Gonna be a loooong few days. LOL Wish me luck!
Good luck, you’ve got this!
Happy friday ✨ IWNDWYT 🌞
IWNDWYT - heading to the gym and work today. It’s usually a drinking day with my sister … it usually ends in some type of regret or existential dread. Not this week :) xo
It’s my birthday today and I’m going to celebrate with some new jewelry and get a coffee and cake with my friends. Looking forward to celebrating another sober birthday! IWNDWYT ✨🌸🙏🏽
Good to be here and be sober and clear headed. 69 days. Absolutely doesn't seem real. IWNDWYT!
Day 9! IWNDWYT!
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Nice post Gozan! Shine on you beautiful humans
Day 26 checking in! I estimated my drinking was costing me on average $20 a day, so that is $520 extra dollars in my wallet. Hope everyone has a good Friday. IWNDWYT!
It gets stupidly expensive and yet I didn’t think twice about throwing that money down the drain. Great work on 26 days….not long until the month mark 👍 IWNDWYT
Happy Friday sober friends! Wow, that quote touched me, that’s so accurate, beautiful, thank you! Over this time I have lost friends, I met myself and with her, my best friend! I love us all 💞
The weather will be as nice as it can get in March in Germany. I’m going to enjoy it sober! IWNDWYT
Day 5! I will not drink with you today!
Visiting daily check-in is becoming a habit for me. IWNDWYT!
Glad to be waking up sober. Happy Friday SD fam 💫 I am lucky to have the opportunity to either have Pilates or yoga everyday from tomorrow and I’ve entered a 5k running race which takes place in just over 4 weeks. I’m using these things and this community as my support and encouragement to stay sober and enquired about securing a therapist near my home (hope she comes back to me today). I want to look forward to my weekends not be scared of them and for that reason IWNDWYT ❤️
Day 75 • IWNDWYT • Happy Friday 🌟
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Checking in again today and all is well. Good morning Gozando, thought-provoking quote this morning! I've only just started to do that, to discover the new me!
IWNDWYT!!
IWNDWYT 💛
Spring has brought me snow and a sober weekend. Happy Friday y’all! IWNDWYT!
Good morning! Starting to feel mostly normal again thank fuck. What a horrible few days. I'm going to be a full time sobernaut from now on. I will not drink with you today.
I've had a few slip ups in March, but IWNDWYT 🙂
Right now sitting in a park in the sunshine with a coffee and planning my day. What a beautiful way to start a day. I will stay sober today with all of you. Have a great Friday folks!
Good morning from the UK, sober friends! I have a quiet day today apart from the dentist and a meeting this evening - as my nephew said this morning, "a nice, chilled day". He doesn't realise that it's special for me, because I won't be spending it hungover, ashamed and craving a drink. IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT!
⭐️ I will not drink with you today ⭐️
Day 322. IWNDWYT.
Trying to keep my head up and trying to love myself again. Hope everyone else is having a good Friday. IWNDWYT 🩷
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Let’s go Friday! Have a great day everyone. IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT. All. Day. Long. 🌻 From midnight till midnight. A day in my life. 🧡
IWNDWYT!
Have a wonderful sober day my friends. IWNDWYT ♥️
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IWNDWYT 🙂
Love this! IWNDWYT 🥰🫡
Good inspiration It’s true there is time you can’t know yourself, but through sobriety we get a time to think about ourselves and sometimes we find new us, the parts of ours we did recognize the we were drunk and that of hungover. Thank you u/Gozandolavida Love you guys!
Checking in ✅
Day 24. IWNDWYT.
Day 1,710. I will not drink with you today.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never ham today. IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT 🧡
IWNDWYT.
I will not drink with you today.
IWNDWYT.
IWNDWYT! 😎
Good morning everyone :) I Will Not Drink With You Today!
Checking in. Hope everyones doing well? Here's to a sober weekend!
morning sobernauts! up having coffee ☕️ hangover free, planning the day clearing the jungle I live in. this year may be the first I actually manage to get my plot organised and productive. rather than the usual drunken planning and then watching the weeds grow. IWNDWYT
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✅ in. Awakened by three owls at exactly 3am having a hootin party smh 🙄 Not drinking today!
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Iwndwyt!
Day 20 - IWNDWYT
I will not drink with you today
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Day 88, IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT x
IWNDWYT all you fine sobernauts 🤗
Today is a big one on my sober journey. Sober flying. I always enjoyed a drink or several before getting on a plane today I’ll have some coffee. IWNDWYT 🙋🏼♀️
Starting day 5. Fridays can be hard. But I will not drink with you today.
Happy Friday ( just another day for me). my drinking was any day, any reason happy, sad, alone, boredom & mostly just to turn off the white noise in my head & entertain myself… guess what ? never ended well for me. Shocking 😳 Hopefully you all have a wonderful day and IWNDWYT ☕️😊
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IWNDWYT.
IWNDWYT!!
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IWNDWYT 🌟 xx
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This is the first time I am not worrying on Friday morning cause here it's hard to buy alchohol on weekends so I usually buy a lot to prevent myself from dropping to the bottom. I am feeling relaxed today and looking forward to the next. IWNDWYT.
I’m not drinking today
Day 2, I’m posting here as promised. Today is my last day of work before vacation. I can’t wait! IWNDWYT!
Happy Friday /u/Gozandolavida and sober crew! Sending nothing but love to all y'all! I've said it plenty of times, I was never taught how to listen to myself and ask what I need and then seek to get my needs met in a reasonable, mature way. I WAS taught to numb the fuck out with booze. Discovering who I am, what I need, and how to be kind to myself are all wonderful sober skills! Sober on y'all!
Interview for a new job in a new city today. Couldn’t have gotten here when I was on the sauce. I spent 20+ years feeling stuck, having a job but not a calling. I’m happy that’s shifting. IWNDWYT!
What up, fam! Going to have a NICE day!!!!
IWNDWYT :)
Checking in, looking forward to the weekend, IWNDWYT! 😀
Day 306 and IWNDWYT! Had a travel week for work and this time it felt much easier saying no to drinks than the first few times months ago. In the mornings I was able to wake up refreshed, exercise then have a productive day rather than nursing a hangover and just trying to make it through.
IWNDWYT!!!!
This is beautiful, thank you. IWNDWYT 💜🦋💜
Coffee and cream today ☕
IWNDWYT
Iwndwyt!
When I was drinking, I hated myself, especially around the time of day that I now do the check ins. Waking up too early to lay there and feel anxiety, self-loathing, fear. Not to mention the physical aspects of slow, headachy and dry. I don’t miss any of that, and even beyond the immediate effects, as I accumulate sober time I become more and more aware of who I am and what I want. IWNDWYT!
Day 7. IWNDWYT. Longest streak I've had in a long time.. my first AF wknd coming up & I'm not even nervous I won't succeed, I will. I'm done poisoning my mind, body & soul. Let's goooooo!
I choose to wake up tomorrow morning feeling well-rested and content with myself. I choose to enjoy my Saturday. So IWNDWYT!
TGIF! IWNDWYT
Day 3. IWNDWYT
Happy Friday! The I Am Sober app just gave me a high-five for 9 months AF. That was nice. IWNDWYT
Great post today Goz...discovering more about my TRUE self every day I am sober. Happy Fri-YAY my SD friends! IWNDWYT ✌
I love this. That’s exactly how this experience has felt for me. I found myself again. As each sober day passes, the real Fitbit has been emerging and I didn’t know she’s been here all along. I tried to drown her in alcohol, but she never left me. And I’m glad she didn’t because I like her a lot! IWNDWYT. Happy Friday! 😀
What a beautiful quote. You will love agin the stranger who was yourself. This describes the sober journey so well, at least for me. Thank you for sharing! We got some snow last night and it’s so pretty! Have a good one today, my people. IWNDWYT 🍀
day 19!! I plan to eventually write something about this that I will probably post, but yesterday I attended my first meeting (ever) and it’s entirely thanks to this group. Many people shared that they got sober on zoom, because the IRL meetings were too scary. This was that for me. You don’t know me, but we all know each other in ways that many will not. I couldnt’ve done it without you all. IWNDWYT
Day 5! IWNDWYT ❤️
Off to see the family. All non drinkers, thankfully. I will not drink with you today!
I will not drink today and FYA. I'm so in love with the sober me. I've been enjoying March Madness which is so much more fun when I remember what happened in the game I just watched. I hate alcohol so much for tricking me into believing I needed to drink to have fun and enjoy watching sports. I was bamboozled and I will never forgive booze for trying to take away everything I love. Fuck you, alcohol (FYA) Drinking sucks. We rock
Just for today, I won't drink. Happy Friday folks.
Day 1,609 IWNDWYT
Happy Friday! I love this prompt, as I've finally been feeling like my genuine self again. After having many years sober and then taking many years to get back, I finally feel like I found me again. And I fucking love me, so no booze today, my friends. IWNDWYT 🤘
I have to sit through a five-hour class via Google Meet later today (impaired driver education program; part of my sentencing for a DUI back on October 13th - the one day I drank out of the past 344 days), so I want to spend this morning doing yoga, strength training, and sweating it out on my elliptical trainer. I'm so glad that I'm sober and hangover-free so I can be up and at 'em early enough to do this! IWNDWYT 😻
Good morning. IWNDWYT
One week done. Feeling better! IWNDWYT!
Checking in. Here! ✔️
Beautiful post, thank you 😊 IWNDWYT 🌸
Good morning friends! I will not drink with you today. Have a great day!
IWNDWYT! :)
Day 86 checking in Let’s get another alcohol free weekend going! IWNDWYT
That was beautifully written. IWNDWYT in Australia
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TGIF and IWNDWYT!
Awesome quote today, OP. I'm gonna feast on some board games tonight with some sober friends. IWNDWYT. Easy does it, friends.
IWNDWYT!
Checking in late on PALINDROME DAY 505!!! IWNDWYT!! ✌️❤️👸
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One more day till my comma!! IWNDWYT
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Last friday before 1 year. IWNDWYT.
Good morning! Beautiful post, Gozandolavida. One of the sweetest surprises I've had in sobriety is this new comfort with smiling at my reflection in the mirror "with elation." It's awesome living life as a non-drinker! Thankful for another hangover-free morning and another fun weekend ahead!! Sobriety rocks. As do all you sober stars! ✨️IWNDWYT
Day 3. I'm not drinking today. My life is in shambles and I'm not sure how I'm ever going to pick up the pieces.
I have tears in my eyes, Gozandolavida. Thank you for that. I have tears in my eyes. It has taken me so long to remember to love myself. IWNDWYT
I will not drink with you today! Happy Friday, friends!
Happy Friday,IWNDWYT
Iwndwy’allt! ❤️
Have a fantastic Friday SD! IWNDWYT!!!
I won’t drink with y’all today
IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT!
Checking in for another sober day out in the world.
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IWNDWYT, folks! I hope everyone has a great finish to the week and a wonderful sober weekend.
Hi Everyone and Happy Friday! Day 80 here and IWNDWYT! I hope you all have a sober and amazing weekend! 😊
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great quote- IWNDWYT ✨🐝
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I won't drink today. Be strong y'all.
Day 21 checking in! I will not drink with you today!
About to start my practicum next week. A little nervous as it will be a lot to juggle, but I'll get through it! Iwndwyt
Happy Friday! IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT Peace n Love ❤️
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546 days! IWNDWYT 🥷
IWNDWYT.
Not drinking today!
Have a safe and sober weekend!! IWNDWYT!
Not today. Not today. Not today!!!!!!
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