ESH: Valerie D (20 Years)

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Valerie D is our speaker today, she is from Virginia and had been sober for 20 years Valerie is sharing at the Primary Purpose Group in October of 2017. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2300+ 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 SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.4	Dollar and I am an alcoholic.
0:30.0	Thanks for having me here tonight.
0:31.6	I am welcome to your first A&A meeting.
0:35.0	I'm sorry that you have to listen to me tonight.
0:40.3	But I'm from Richmond, Virginia, my home group is DJ Walker's group, and we have a Tuesday
0:46.5	and I big book study closed now Friday night, we have our big speaker meeting.
0:55.6	So if you're ever in Richmond come see us, we'd love to have you.
1:00.1	My Friday date is October 13, 1992, so if John doesn't drive me to drink while I'm
1:09.1	here, I know that shit happens when I go on to Richmond, I'll have 25 years in a week
1:14.2	which is unbelievable.
1:17.9	Considering how long it took me to get here and for it to stick for me to say all right,
1:24.1	I'll drink the Kool-A, you know.
1:28.4	So I'm a Navy brat, I come from a long, upstanding line of neurotics and drugs and mental defects
1:38.5	and grew up in that kind of environment.
1:45.6	I came into my first A&A meeting in 1982 when I was 15 years old, and I'd only been
1:52.9	drinking a short period of time, just about a year.
1:58.0	And my alcoholism, you know, something just left my body, you know, I don't know what
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