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Hey, everybody.

I'm Michelle.

I'm an alcoholic, and I'm a grateful member of Al-Anon.

I want to welcome the newcomers tonight.

Welcome home. I hope you stay with users tonight. Welcome home.

I hope you stay with us a while.

And if you've been gone for a while, I'm glad you're back.

There's nothing like it.

There really isn't.

Thank you for your story tonight, Brock.

And happy birthday, sweet sister.

You know, my drinking career didn't start terribly early.

High school was when I really got introduced to alcohol.

But the internal story started a lot earlier than that.

And I was born in Modesto, California, home of Gallow

wine, and I lived there for about the first year of my life, and then we moved to Southern

California, and I grew up on the west side.

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