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So I'm Megan.

I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, Megan.

Hi, guys.

The first time I came into AA was in September 2007.

However, my sobriety date is August 3rd, 2015.

So almost a decade I've been coming in and out of the room.

And what it was like, I grew up around here.

I was born in San Francisco.

I grew up in Piedmont.

My mom was born in San Francisco. My grandmother in Piedmont. My mom was born in San Francisco. My grandmother

was born in Oakland, so yes, I'm a unicorn. So I came from an alcoholic home, and it was totally

normal to drink a huge Catholic family, non-practicing Catholic. And yeah, that was super normal. So even when I was

a kid, one of my friends' dads was like an alcoholic in AA. And I remember my mom saying that

if you ever go to a party and someone's not drinking, stay away from them because they're probably

an alcoholic. Like a kid you know, they're probably an alcoholic. Like, I kid you

not. They're probably an alcohol and they talk about God and like stay away. So that was

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