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Hi, I'm Barbara, I'm an alcoholic.

Was it Diane that asked me?

Thank you.

I'll get back at you.

My sobriety date is August 16, 1992, and my home group is the West Portland Group.

I have them Portland, obviously.

And my husband and I came down here to watch his little brother play baseball for the Dodgers,

and he got traded.

So my husband said we might as well, you know, we're going to a meeting, so we might as well be there and hear our favorite speakers.

Just kidding.

What it was like when I happened with this like now in a nutshell, I hit my bottom, right over on cameras, right by the Hollywood Bowl,

15 years ago, almost exactly 15 years ago.

My entire life I had felt very much on the outside and very uncomfortable in my own skin, just really miserable, even if I had success.

Even if people praised me, even if I felt like I was in the right place, I just could not fit into the world.

And when I was 16, my mother had gotten rid of my alcoholic father, and she felt like she had finally found a solution to getting some peace within our family.

And then she took me to a wedding reception, and there was a couple of really popular kids there.

And I had had a lot of sips of alcohol, you can't rope around an alcoholic and not at least try a sip.

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