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I'm Mary, grateful, nervous, recovering alcoholic.

I'm also a member of the CIA, Catholic Irish Alcoholics.

Cromwell, as Anne said, has been my home group since I first came into this fellowship.

What else do you need to?

Oh, my sobriety date is July 4th, 1974.

That changed.

I came in originally March 19th, but I'll get around to telling you why, honestly, I had to change the date.

Okay. why, honestly, I had to change the date. I didn't want to become an alcoholic.

I grew up with alcoholism.

I saw I was under the feelings that it brought down to me.

And I wasn't going to be like that.

And for the better part of my life, oh, I'm also the oldest of four children in my

immediate family.

And I was always told that I should be setting the example.

And, you know, without leadership to show what the example is I have no idea

but I became the person who helped everybody who wasn't drinking but you know

when we went to a party or whatever I got made sure everybody else get home I didn't a drink, as a lot of people in this room can probably attest to,

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