ESH: Luis H from Costa Rica

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🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Luis H originally from Costa Rica telling his story at an unknown meeting in North Hollywood California in December of 2005. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.0	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting silvercast.com
0:18.0	Look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.0	We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day.
0:27.0	My name is Luis and I am an alcoholic. Can you see me in the way all the way in the back?
0:37.0	I understand that.
0:41.0	Well, it's not that important that you see me. What is important today is that you can hear me and that you can listen.
0:51.0	Because many times I went to meetings and I didn't listen and there were signs there of a disease that is called alcoholism.
1:02.0	And Luis has a disease and ill and sick of the disease alcoholism.
1:15.0	I didn't know that until I got to AA.
1:21.0	I was born in San Jose Costa Rica.
1:26.0	So if you think that you are an alcoholic because you were born in North Hollywood, no, that's not the reason.
1:35.0	I developed some of my alcoholism in North Hollywood.
1:40.0	Most of my favorite bars are in North Hollywood.
1:44.0	At the end of my drinking any bar that would serve me was my favorite bar.
1:53.0	By the age of 25 I was done with the country of Costa Rica.
2:03.0	My perception was that everybody hated me there.
2:09.0	From the president of the country who didn't know who I was, to my neighbors, to my parents, to my employers, to my brothers, to my friends.
2:32.0	Everybody hated me there.
2:36.0	I didn't know at that time that I have a disease.
2:39.0	The disease that I just told you I have alcoholism.
2:43.0	And the most of us have.
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