Hello everyone and thanks for waiting for me to post about my trip to New York. Here are a few amazing photos of an event I will remember for a lifetime.
This is the place. Rockafeller Center, Times Square…The Rainbow Room.
Here I am graced by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics.
Then doubly graced by Eunice and her sister Patricia Kennedy Lawson.
Here is Benjamin Bratt with Earnestine and Hope, both Volvo For Life Recipients from the previous years.
I’m happy to share these with you, dear readers, if only to show you that even if you have been at the bottom of life, it is possible to get up, dust yourself off and stand tall.
Blessings to you all,
Dawn
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May 12th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Hello Dawn,
I just wanted to let you know that you inspire me to be my best. I keep up on your website and am anxiously awaiting the release of your book and I am always glad to hear that you are doing good. You deserve it. It’s people like you that have actually lived and understand how life isn’t always the fairy-tale dream that most people have. In your new photos, you look like you fit right in with those Kennedy sisters…sophisicated and full of self-respect. I think we all need a little more of that sometimes. And, even though I don’t know you, I can relate to you and that is why I think you are so great. Ashley…..please write back….TOODLES!
P.S. I hope your daughter is doing great…she has a great mom!
May 14th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
You are such a wonderful daughter. I truly appreciate your efforts to get an autograph from Sally Ride, but more important is the wonderful photo of the two of you together. You and Sally are both heros in my mind!
May 15th, 2006 at 7:56 am
Thank you for sharing the pictures, You look so beautiful and full of confidence.
looking at you today you would never know the pain you have suffered in your life.
You are such a inspiration to others.
Have a blessed day.
Kitty
May 24th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Hi, it’s me again. I agree with Kitty. You are very beautiful! I also appreciate the pics you posted on here and I can’t wait to see more. Keep on keeping on Dawn. Ashley.
May 24th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Hello,
I gotta say I’m not a real fan of photos of myself, but I appreciate the compliments non-the-less. I think more than anything I am very honored to have been a part of such awards.
Thanks.
Dawn
May 30th, 2006 at 7:30 am
Dearest Dawn
I am a recovering addict (crystal meth) and have been clean for 5 months. I saw Wonderland about a month after I came clean and it hit such a powerful chord with me that I couldn’t sleep the night I saw it.
I realised how easily someone could trade everything - like John traded his girlfriend, his friends, his self-respect - just for a high. It could have been ME going down that road had I not sought help.
I hate to think about the person I was when I was an addict - someone who took money from my loved ones and lied about what I needed it for, to buy my stuff and who only cared about her stuff and buying more and when she could get more…. the movie brought home in stark reality where drug abuse can lead. In the end, the drugs were all that mattered to John and look where it got him. I could see so many parallels between his need for the drugs and my own need, back when I was using.
I want to thank you for contributing to the movie because it sends a powerful message about drug use and where it can lead. I know that contributing to the movie and speaking openly about the things that happened to you can’t be easy. But know that what you have done and what you are still doing, is a help to me and I’m sure many other people. You are such an amazing person and a true heroine and I just wanted to tell you that you inspire me and I have so much respect for you.
Thank you for being who you are!
Hugs,
Michelle