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I'm Angie and I am an alcoholic.

I want to thank Kathy Craig and the committee for inviting me.

I'd like to thank my body for not giving me asthma this morning and I also like to thank my head for not letting me sleep last night.

So other than that I'm fine.

I heard Clancy last night and I thought that was the first time I ever knew there was a

Clancy was when he was eight years sober and he was always throwing

zingers then to people and pissing people off just like he is now and and I you And I just thought why would a person because he's all over the place like

fertilizer all over the place and I'm thinking why why would a person such as Clancy or even

myself still get up here and listen to the same old dead story you got to say over and over and over again.

And you know what it came to me?

Is that the gratitude inspires a passion and wakes up a passion and a love for this program

and the opportunity to get up to a part of the podium and vomit out our pain.

That's what it amounts to.

That's what's happened to me.

So over and over and over again,

until it gets filled up with the spirit and the love of

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