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Good evening.

My name is Norma and I'm an alcoholic.

Welcome to the Pacific Group of Alcoholics Anonymous.

The format of this meeting is two 10-minute speakers, a coffee break and a main speaker.

Our first 10-minute speaker is Brenda W.

I'm Brenda W.

I'm Brenda Wilson, I'm an alcoholic and I want to thank Kim for asking me to do this. It's a privilege.

And as soon as I stop hyperventilating, I'll start talking.

And it's exciting for me to be in front of my home group

and to be, to see where I came from, and where I'm at today.

You know, I came through the doors of Alcoholics

on December 14th of 1986.

And I didn't come here because I wanted to because I liked it. I came here as Vince likes to say because I was beaten. I was surrender. I was done. I didn't know where else to do and I knew that you came here to stop drinking.

And I was willing to turn myself to this gray people with gray hair and thin lips because that's

what they look like to me.

But I'll tell you a little bit what I used to be like.

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