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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hi everyone my name is ellen and i am an

alcoholic you can take the other one down too now i can see everybody. And I am from Buena Park. Not too far away, just 20 miles off.

I was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and I came from a home where I felt no self-esteem in it whatsoever.

My mother would always put me down and tell me everything was wrong with me and never, you know, do anything.

And my father was just as well in La La Land, let's put it that way.

It's a nice way to cover up a disaster.

Anyway, I, Anyway, my family did not drink, that neither my mother nor my father drank.

But I did have come from a line of real rough alcoholics.

I had four uncles that died of it, and then I had a cousin that died,

and I had two cousins. One flew out from Ireland on a geographic, and he died of it out here,

and there was plenty of it around, and it just skipped a generation, I guess, because I was the only

one in my family that was an alcoholic,

and the other children were all younger than I was, and I'm the only member of that family alive today.

And it's a strange feeling because I went through so much.

My story and my disease took me into the gates of hell, literally into the gates of hell.

And AA brought me right up into heaven.

It did.

This program works, but we always have to work it.

I left that home as soon as i could i had

i had started to drink and i remembered my very first drink i was at a dance and i was hiding in a

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