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Hi, my name is Keith and I'm an alcoholic, really grateful to be here, yeah, I'm not going

to lie, I was a little stressed out before I came, I was just leaving her brother's birthday

party over in Brantwood and so I went to those little jumpy places and she was not happy

to leave and she was screaming the whole way here, my check engine light came on and I was

going to get my car smog Monday and I was freaking out for a minute, you know what I mean?

And you know, in the past I would have drove straight home, I would have called the person

that asked me to speak and be like, hey, you know, I would have lied and said something

that came up and I just wouldn't show it up, you know, and that's how I spent a lot of

my life, you know, being dishonest, running from things that scared me or things that made

me uncomfortable, but I think so this program, it showed me a new way to live and it's definitely

a better way for me to trust in the, yeah, what it was like for me, I grew up with both

my parents were alcoholics and addicts, but when I was about four years old, one of them

decided to get clean and sober and, you know, growing up in two different households

like that, it's a struggle going back and forth, you know, my mom who decided to get

clean and sober, you know, I had a lot of structure in my life, I was told and learned from

the early age that drugs and alcohol were bad and I should never do them, it wasn't forced

down my throat, but it definitely felt like something that, you know, I should never

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