The Pledge:

1) I pledge to bring someone in. If I light a candle, I will share the light.

2) I will be a reminder in every way I can to my family, friends, and 
community: we have these problems, they are difficult, but there is 
no shame attached to them and we live in a Big Tent.

3) We can live with our problems.

4) I pledge to break the shame barrier, which means:

5) Talk, talk, and more talk.

6) I pledge to remind my community that we are working our problems, 
that being secret may be part of the problem, therefore:

7) I will not practice aloneness. I will talk with somebody. I will 
pick up the phone.

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