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basket we hope you enjoy the podcast have a great day hey all my name is camille i'm an alcoholic

i'm so nervous um my sobriety day is October the 7th, 2013.

I have a sponsor who has a sponsor, and I am willing to sponsor women.

I grew up in a great home.

I was the only child.

My parents divorced when I was about 13, and that's when I really

started drinking. I don't remember exactly who I was with or where I was when I had my first

drink, but I do remember when I took that first drink that I didn't like the way

it tastes, but I continued to drink it anyway, right? So I sitting on, I was crazy back then.

So, you know, and drinking and drugs are a huge part of my story.

I didn't really believe I was an alcoholic until I got in these rooms.

But for a long time, drinking worked for me.

You know, I was 13 when I started.

I graduated high school.

I went off to college.

And the people that I partied with and drank with, I counted myself way different than any of them because I was in college.

You know, I was smarter than all you all.

And I was able to hold my stuff together, if you will, for a long time, right?

I went on to, I graduated college, and I went on to graduate school.

I got my master's degree.

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