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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day good evening my name is mariam

and i am an alcoholic and y'all require two drinks tonight i uh i'm very nervous and And let me just tell you what. I know my sobriety date

is March 10th of 1990. My home group is it's in the book in Littleton, Colorado. We meet on Wednesday

nights at 6.30 in the Littleton Adventances Hospital. So please come visit us.

And I just have to say it's very hard to follow Sarah and Adrian because rarely do people

make concepts and traditions so fun to want to do, right?

The right of decision.

You know, how powerful is that?

You know, Alcoholics Anonymous gives us great, great responsibility, you know, and considering

that I fit for the criteria that didn't fit in Alcoholics Anonymous early on, I do have to

say I'm very grateful.

I have to say that I love you, Adrian, you know, I'm going to tell you this part of my story.

I'm a crier.

At about 14 years sober, when I thought that darkness had come upon me again,

I walked through those moments with my friend Adrian, and I did it, doors wide open, veils

undone, and, you know, he held my hand, and he walked through that period of my life with me,

and I'm very grateful for that. You know, we've both gone on, and we both have babies today,

and babies change everything, but've both gone on, and we both have babies today, and babies change everything.

And, but I tell you what, you know, those moments, nothing can take that away from me.

And I'm going to tell you about a lot of those moments that Alcoholics Anonymous has given me that have been complete gifts from God.

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