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Hi. podcast and have a great day. Hi everybody. I'm Fran and I'm an alcoholic.

I always wait for divine inspiration of some sort at this point.

I should say that I'm probably the the abject contrast to John in that my life has been quiet and sad and anxious and full of worry and not one word has been expressed

but I had every single thought that he had except it was unexpressed and probably

everybody else was able to read that except me.

My beginning was fairly inauspicious.

I did not come from an alcoholic family.

I didn't even know there were alcoholics in my family until a few trees were shaken later in my life.

I would like to say that I also had an advantage childhood.

I have, the one thing, you know, about, I hesitate, I just use the word old-timer um I like to think of words like

mature and uh even old crone is better you know now that I'm in that kind of transition

um the women in the audience would probably know what I mean.

But I would also like to say that it gives me an opportunity to be, to look at life in retrospect.

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