ESH: Lois F telling her story in 1984

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Lois F. from New York speaking at the Southeastern Conference of the Georgia State Convention in Aug. of 1984, she has a great sense of humor. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Sober Cast has 2900+ 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 Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker Meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.7	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.6	Hi, everybody.
0:28.7	My name is Lois.
0:30.2	Aaholic.
0:32.2	I'm also a member of the Greenwich Village, A group in New York City.
0:36.2	And if you walked into that group, you would probably think it looks like the most off-the-wall group in AA.
0:42.5	We always have a lot of newcomers.
0:46.2	We always have a lot of people at our meetings with many, many years of sobriety.
0:52.0	We have, you know, about half the members are straight, about half
0:55.4	are gay. We have at least one transvestite, at least one transsexual, and we have a whole
1:01.4	lot of street people who always sit in the back, who really just come for the coffee and the
1:06.0	cookies and lots of sugar and lots of milk. And it looks like the most off-the-wall group, NAA,
1:14.6	but it's as solid as a rock.
1:16.6	And I love it, and you're welcome to attend any night that you're there
1:20.3	on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday.
1:22.8	I also attend the 4-6-8 meeting at the General Service Office
1:26.5	every Friday at 11, and you're
1:28.2	most welcome to that meeting anytime you're in New York, too.
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