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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day my name is tray and I am a grateful

recovering alcoholic and I use he him pronouns and hello San Francisco, hello world.

This is just, this is the most ultimate honor.

And I just, I cannot thank all of you enough, just everyone that Scott just thanked.

I just, there's been so much work, so many emails, just so many conversations going back and forth to have gotten me to be able to speak to you in this moment. And I'm just, I'm so grateful. I can't put into words how meaningful this past

weekend has been. I mean, it is just, I've been looking forward to this for, for so many years.

I've been wanting to go to living sober. For so many years. My sobriety date is March 21st, 2014.

And it's been a bucket list item for me to be able to make it. And I haven't ever been able to yet

until this year. And what a deal. What a deal that we have, this gift and this everything. And I just,

I'm in awe. I'm so in in awe I didn't realize how much I needed

this weekend so thank you from the bottom of my heart I don't want this moment to end they said I have

30 minutes but I'm planning on like speaking for probably about six or seven hours so just get

comfortable okay because I just don't want this day to end but I am just I'm so

grateful so basically what it was like is I was born of once upon a time on January 7th

1981 and at that time I was born in a suburb outside of Chicago.

I was actually born in the city.

And I, at that time, was born a little girl.

And the name my parents gave me at that time was Ashley.

And so I was born into the world, a little girl.

And growing up as Ashley, I love that name.

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