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Hi, my name is Heather again, I'm an alcoholic and I'm sober by the grace of God, amazing

sponsorship and the fellowship of alcoholic synonymous since April 8, 1990.

I want to thank Mike for representing my state of Tennessee in a lovely orange ensemble.

He informed me that he is a corn husker through and through, but he thought he would

show me some Tennessee ball love, thank you.

I want to thank Bill and the committee for asking me to come out and speak and my host

is Mo and I, oh my God, she is a wild child, she has worn me out, we got in the car and

we were like, and we haven't stopped, so, and happy birthday to our 25 Hawaii girl, you

go girl, I'm sorry, I speak and I should know not to come up with gum, my husband likes

to remind me that one would have to go to a truck stop to meet a woman of your quality.

Come on, so, I grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee right at the foot of the Smoky Mountains, I

hated everything about my life as a child, I was the most nervous, uptight kid you have

ever met, I rung my hands constantly, I worried what you thought about me.

I worried about not worrying, I was so edgy and I was a latent bed wetter which was just

so much fun, I remember sleeping at a friend's house and trying to tell her it wasn't pee,

it was just heavy sweating, so, already feeling different immediately, my mother was a single

parent and back in the 1970s in East Tennessee, it was like scandalous, it was like they put

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