Welcome to episode 218 of the Recovery Show.

I hope you enjoy and get as much as I did from this open talk by Charlotte I. Hi.

Hi.

I'm Charlotte I, member of Illinois.

I'm Charlotte.

I am really happy to be here. I just last night I just when I walked onto this ship I

thought I'd walked into paradise.

And I was having such a good time.

And then the Dodgers lost and sent me into an immediate depression.

But everything is going to be better today. I know I'm delighted that I can get up here early and get it over with and I'm not even scared really. I'm just thrilled and I really feel honored and I don't know what I'm going to say but my higher power better kick in pretty soon.

But you know I woke up this morning my eyes popped open at 6 o'clock and I said what day is it?

And then suddenly I remembered.

And there are some days I still get up and I wonder where God is or what he's doing and that was kind of a feeling I had this morning

But my wonderful spouse got up with me and we had breakfast and here we made it and so it's going to be good.

I'm checking my clock here.

I have to talk for an hour I guess. So anyway if I have to talk for an hour I guess so anyway if I have to talk for an hour I'll have to go way back to the beginning which was 1929 and for those of you who are slow at mathematics, 48 years, I came in with a crash.

And I know I was supposed to be here.

I just know that, because even that was a good day for my parents they say.

But I had, I came into the world and I lived in a beautiful world that many times I was ashamed of

but today I realized what a beautiful world it was and I had a beautiful childhood and I truly can go back to the scenes of my childhood and find peace and comfort. I was born on a farm in Wisconsin.

When I came along at the end of seven children, four of whom died, and my parents always wanted a little girl.

And so when I came into the world I was their little princess, and they always treated me like a princess.

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