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Hi, I guess I don't have to do that do I, I like to lean into life here, I have a home

group called Posseon Broadway, I got a sponsor who has a sponsor who's at least as crazy

as I am.

I'm fortunate to belong to a sponsorship family where I've known the three people above

me or whatever you want to call it for like 20 to 30 years each you know and so when

my naturally invasive nature kicks in they know if I'm a little to the left or a little

to the right and that's good because I'm full of that stuff we call do-do sometimes.

I love looking at a group of people of AA's in a convention, you're so nice, you're smiling

you know and it's like just under the surface line, you know like thank God we're here.

My life started out weird, right, I was raised, I'm a mixed, a mixed racially next mixed

in other ways maybe but racially mixed raised in a black home with a Mexican name at the

time that's a story we don't have time to tell and and and and in a home that believed

in an American made religion so I was all messed up and there was all kinds of great

reasons to drink and I really it got in the way of my recovery to focus on those reasons

you know there was some abuse and there was some trauma there was like and I'm an artist

and so I'm weird and like you know all this like all this distraction from the fact that

I drink because I like the effect produced by alcohol. I drink in response to the phenomenon

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