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Hi everyone, I'm Kathleen, I'm an alcoholic, hey it's great to be here, I want to thank

the group for having me, usually don't get too nervous before I speak but I do feel a

little bit of butterflies in my stomach, I would like to briefly qualify, my sobriety

day is May 14, 1987 and for that I'm truly grateful, I have a home group, the Orange County

Young Peoples Group in Morewick, New York, we meet on Sunday nights, we have a 6pm big

book meeting and we have a 7.30pm open speaker meeting or closed speaker discussion meeting,

sorry about that, and if you're ever up in Morewick it's an excellent meeting, it's a

very old time good hardcore AA meeting, I have a sponsor and she has a sponsor and a

grand sponsor, I have a lot of support of the women and the men in this program, I got

sober at a very young age and I really, really struggled for a while and it was really

through the grace of God and the fellowship that I came to have in my life that really

pulled me out on the other side.

I do a lot of service work, I'm involved in my home group, I have a, I chair the big

book meeting and I am going to soon be making coffee for that group, I am involved in a

retreat for women called Keeping the Spirit Alive and I've been involved in that retreat

for about 11 or 12 years and that's been very, very influential in my life, that has really

given me a lot of close relationships with women and men through service, I sponsor one

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