Episode 14: Coming Out Sober

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

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🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 105 minutes

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I'm comin' out! I want the world-to-know-ow. Holly and Laura breakdown the who, when, and why of how they came out sober and what it was all like. Also, a recap of Unite to Face Addiction in DC and a couple special announcements. Music by Radiation City.

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0:00.0	There is Hope for us yet.
0:05.0	We are young, we are away.
0:07.0	I am Holly Whitaker.
0:10.0	And I am Laura McCowen.
0:13.0	And this is home.
0:15.0	Morning.
0:19.0	Good morning.
0:20.0	Good morning.
0:21.0	Good morning.
0:22.0	How are you? I'm good. Better after having the black plague or whatever. Yeah. The five week one. Ebull that
0:32.2	Ebola virus.
0:34.0	I'm glad you're alive.
0:37.0	I'm glad you're doing better.
0:39.0	I did not get sick.
0:40.0	I thought it was.
0:41.0	There was a moment in time when I got back and I was certain that you and your daughter and Boston and all of that had...
0:49.3	And the four flights you took? The four flights, the two trains, the bus, the five different beds,
0:56.2	and the four different cities have gotten to me, but they didn't. I know, that's pretty amazing.
1:01.1	It is, actually. It is actually it's nothing short of a miracle and you're in
1:07.1	your here in your new home. I'm in my new home I met my mom's and I'm here for mom's subly seeing my apartment and it is.
1:18.7	Yesterday my uncle came and picked me up and took me grocery shopping because my mom's out of town and I know my life was cute.
1:24.9	And he was like he was concerned because I had three bags of groceries and he wanted me to take him in, you know, I picked all three up at once and was carrying him into the house and he was like, whoa, and I was just, I had this flash of walking with four bags of groceries in my purse
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