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My name is Ciam and I'm an alcoholic.

Really so happy to be here, so so happy.

I got a call to come here and I thought, ooh, pine lake, that sounds really cool, you

know, and then there were some little mix-ups like with my email and then I didn't hear

from you and I was so bummed because I thought it kind of fell through and maybe you found

somebody taller if that's possible or I don't know, you know, you know how we do.

And then Dawn called and here I am and you, I love the format of your meeting, I love

what you do here, Mark's been a wonderful host and his children not to call you out but

there you go, you're not anonymous at that level.

And I was fun to run into Jean and you know I have some folks I know here and I'm grateful

to be here and so thank you for having me.

I want to say happy birthday to those celebrating a birthday.

I have a lot of sobriety thanks to alcoholics anonymous and what I have come to know is this

is unloan to me a day at a time and I learned by watching you, I owe alcoholics anonymous

and it is why I'm here but it is not begrudging.

There have been times when I was begrudging and I may get to those places again.

The bottom line is you taught me to just show up no matter what because my illness, my alcoholism

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