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Good morning.

My name is Claire and I'm an alcoholic, and I'm grateful to be sober and a proud member

of the scholarship of alcoholics anonymous, and I'd like to thank the committee for this

privilege because it's always a privilege to be asked to go anywhere to share my experience

strength and hope.

For me, it's celebration of life, because I'm one of the ones that should be dead from

this disease, and I want to thank all of you for your hospitality and your, as I look

in this room in the beautiful smiles, and I feel that high energy of love.

I have found in alcoholics anonymous, it's called unconditional love, and wherever I go

today, I sit, and that was not always the case for me.

I don't know what happened in Los Angeles almost 16 years ago when I had drank my weight

to the ghetto, when I lived in a little ghetto house with two children and sick of living

and scared to die.

I believe that I was doomed to die of alcoholism as I understand it today, based on the opinions

of Dr. Silkworth, but there I was, and that's where he'd taken me.

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