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So I just got two years of sobriety.

And you're up. of sobriety. I guess not just like it was like a month ago. This is not my first time in the

rodeo I had a year and I went out for an adventurous weekend.

And I came right back.

So I'll do just a quick what it was like, what happened, what it's like now.

I'm originally from Los Angeles.

And... I'm originally from Los Angeles and I grew up in single mom.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized realized my childhood wasn't the normal.

I don't know in high school I started drinking.

I was like 13 or 14, started drinking, quickly started doing drugs, and then quickly started having with older men to get said drugs.

And I did that for a while.

I had this double life, like I was a straight A student and like class president and in a bunch of clubs and then like outside of school I had all my belongings in a duffel bag and I had to rely on like the kindness of friends and their families to have a place to sleep at night because I couldn't go home and I was really angry and I was really uncomfortable and I used drugs and alcohol

to like not feel what I was feeling. I didn't have like the resources or the language or the

coping skills to like deal with what I was going through.

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