Hello, everybody and welcome to Drunkish. It's a podcast. It's based on a book I wrote a couple years ago, which you can still buy. You know, it's available. Today, I have a great guest. Her name is Cindy. She's going anonymous on this episode, but she has an incredible story,

a lot of years of sobriety, some offs and some on years. And I think you're going to really

enjoy it and relate to it. And before I get to it, do me a favor. And, well, first of all, subscribe and like this

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the show, Drunkish Podcast. Over there, it will really help me out. And now let's go.

Yeah. over there, it will really help me out. And now, let's go. Welcome to drunkish, Cindy, my friend.

Hi.

A person I look up to for fashion choices, for personhood.

Today I'm kind of looking like a little school teacher, but I was a school teacher. Wait,

actually, that's kind of better. I was a school teacher and I love being a school teacher.

Really? I did not know that about you. You didn't? Oh my God, yes. What did you teach?

I taught first and second grade for 10 years. Wow.

I bet you were the best at that.

I had the best time.

I loved it.

Loved it.

Yeah.

In fact, someone that I am very close to now is 36 years old, and she lives a mile down the street,

and she, like me, is sober. I taught her in first grade.

Are you serious?

Yeah. It's actually, it's really great to have adults now that, you know, say, Cindy, because they called us by the first

name. It was a progressive school. Cindy, and I'll turn around and like, you know, I still see

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