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important to him but i had been locked up my entire life with things I wouldn't have shared with anybody.

And here I am opening up to a guy that I barely know.

I've known him a few months.

But I trusted him.

What a relief.

What a relief.

And when I got through with that, my experience was exactly what it describes in the book.

It says when you get through with this, that what you ought to do is go back somewhere.

I went back to myself and reflect on what you've done. Take a look at those first five steps.

Are they solid?

Did you do good work?

Did you get all that you needed to get done?

And if so, then move on.

And so I was pretty well satisfied that with what I had to work with,

I'd done the best I could.

And, God, that was a liberating thing.

And when I walked back to that cell, I was just almost euphoric with relief.

And I didn't realize at the time, but I came to understand later that that was not only important in terms of getting out what I needed to get out,

but it was critically important for a really isolated guy like me.

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