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Thank you Eddie, thank you Judy, thank you Pete.

Hi everyone, my name is Eileen and I'm an alcoholic and I am a member of the Salt Light

Beach group and I'm very happy to be part of this weekend.

I always have felt that to be an honor and a privilege to be associated with anything

in AA and when I was asked to be part of this 14th order meeting I was really thrilled

and I want to thank Earl and Al for letting me meet all you people.

The first time I heard the preamble read at my first AA meeting I knew I belonged here.

I was a very fortunate woman.

I had looked for alcoholics anonymous for five years before I found it.

Although when I looked for it I didn't know there was a fellowship called alcoholics anonymous.

I just wanted to stop drinking more than I wanted anything else in my life five years

before I found this beautiful program.

I was told when I first came into AA and I've heard many times since at every meeting

where to tell what it was like, what got us here and what happened now.

And because I've always done what I've been told in alcoholics anonymous I'll tell you

about my act of alcoholism.

I don't really enjoy talking about it, it's part of the dead past but maybe there's

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