ESH: Clara S used to drink with with Billy Holiday

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🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Claira S is an 83 year old woman from Los Angeles CA, she is telling her story in August of 2008 at the Dynamics Speaker Group in Anaheim California. I didnt realize it until she started talking about partying with Billy Holiday that I had heard her speak at a roundup years ago, I never forgot her remarkable story, she led quite a life. Repost from 2019. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA EVENT: Spring Fling 2023: Feb. 10-12, 2023 - Location: Sacramento, CA Conference Details: https://www.sacspringfling.org/index.html If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2000+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad-free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.0	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.3	Good evening everyone, my name is Claire and I'm an alcoholic and I'm grateful to be
0:32.4	solving a problem with a fellowship of alcoholics anonymous and I'd like to thank Natasha and
0:38.5	Granford.
0:39.5	They just so lovely, they drove out of the way to LA to pick me up and drive me down.
0:45.9	I had a little eye surgery and I was advised, I've driven around for many years of down
0:51.2	this area.
0:52.2	I can't drive at night with the iron coming just four weeks ago, the lights coming so
0:59.0	they offered to come.
1:00.0	Thank you so much and it was very sweet and of course I gave a lecture all the way down
1:05.6	about our alcoholics anonymous.
1:09.6	Thank you.
1:10.6	I'd like to see.
1:11.6	I see the hairs of the newcomers, both Alunon and alcoholics, thank you.
1:21.0	Welcome.
1:22.0	I am too of a double winner, I'm so impressed with this year's format and I'm sober
1:28.6	by the grace of God, 34 years from my first meeting and my sponsor sent me the Alunon
1:36.9	at the end of my first year.
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