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My name is Edith P and I'm an alcoholic.

Hey boys and pleasure to meet here and Greg's been great to me and I should probably I don't know what your tradition is but I try to follow the tradition of meetings but

I'd like to a very loving God who's got a lot of patience and benevolence and a lot of church basements and a sponsor host.

I'm being dog on this this gracious I've been sober since the first day of June 1987 for that I'm very grateful.

But anyway Greg said well how long did take you to get here and I was kind of him in an hauling because I didn't want to tell him but in February of 2000 my husband got me a president of race car driving school.

So I was practicing driving down here I got off the Internet all the different routes and the shortest one was four hours and 45 minutes from Omaha and I got here in four hours and 10 minutes.

I call my law clerk and I said just put it on the computer that I beat the Expedia dot com shortest route.

But anyway Greg's been really good trying to accommodate me and I wish that I had done what I usually do except I got his wife you know I usually on the way down here call and say oh I thought I was speaking tomorrow you know and act like I'm going to be here at 1030.

But I got her and I just couldn't do it that hurt her knowing me so little so I didn't get I didn't get to you know kind of calls any trouble I love to cause trouble not the kind of trouble I used to cause and I brought a joke up here because I always had to read them.

Oh yeah I love it the ever read the great mine you'll probably have a great mine representative this is the own one yeah this is March 2000 the definition of an alcoholic bottom is when things get worse faster than you can lower your standards.

Yeah did a lot of standard lowering.

But anyway I have a I wanted to say I'm sorry I miss Cindy because my husband and I had an appointment I don't know if she's here tonight I'm sure I'll get to meet her from Montana.

But I had a kind of one of those opportunities to again be aware of how fortunate I am when I was driving here and I was realizing how close I was to Albert Lee Minnesota and in 1983 my parents gave me some second off if my parents did this to sedate me.

And put me on a plane and they flew me into Albert Lee Minnesota where I was supposed to go to the treatment hospital but they were full but all I remember is I've been in Nashville like wearing cutoffs you know in Tennessee and it was snowing in April and I thought where am I finally came to I thought I must be I don't know what this is but it wasn't something I was.

It was a plan to do but anyway I had a memory of Albert Lee Minnesota and so I am very pleased that now you're welcome and made a Minnesota instead of me coming under those other conditions.

I got a history of growing up in the South and but I didn't think you knew that.

I got a I grew up in Alabama and we had a happened to live in a county where there was no allowances for drinking so you could be arrested for violating the prohibition law if you believe that I know it's true I have been arrested for that.

But until 1980 I guess 89 I was from a dry county Morgan County it's in the northern part of Alabama so when I was young my father got liquor store come home stock a liquor cabinet and then my mother would have some drinks my mother was younger than my daddy and she had grown up very poor was uneducated.

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