You're listening to season six of the Recovery Happy Hour podcast.

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Let's do this. Hi everyone welcome to Recovery Happy Hour where we talk about life

beyond the bottle and what happens after we stop drinking? I'm your host Tricia.

Welcome to the last episode of 2020.

It's an emotional introduction and my ovaries are responsible for about 70% of that.

Thank you for joining me. Well here we are my friends. The last

week of the year we are so close to wrapping this one up and today's interview

couldn't be more perfect to tie it all up and do a pretty little bow.

Today's interview is unique because we've got someone who's been sober for 35 years.

This is a person who spent their first 35-ish years drinking and their second 35 years recovering.

So equal parts drinking and recovering means she's got a whole lot of wisdom to share and we are really lucky to get to

hear it. It's an interview that I really want you to take the time to listen to in

its entirety even if that means you need to come back later and finish it because

the end of it is what inspired this introduction.

At the end of her interview, G.G. shares with us that despite being on her third marriage when she

last had a drink, she's about to celebrate her 31st year of marriage with her

fourth husband. And it got me thinking about a lot of things. I wasn't really sure how to

package it into an introduction until I started watching the movie It's a Wonderful Life.

I've never actually seen the whole movie until yesterday. I know I know it's like one of those

films that everybody who celebrates Christmas is required to watch but somehow I fell

through the cracks. So while watching this movie for the first time and crying my eyes out,

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