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I'm Timothy, I'm an alcoholic, so I'm not going to use this mic, do not want to, and I'm

also really glad I'm doing 10 minutes, not 40.

So I guess I'll just begin with saying that I, my sobriety day, I'm still new in recovery,

my sobriety day is October 25th of 2016, so I've just under five months and it's not my

first time being in the program, I've been in and out for about three years now and so I don't

know, one thing I wanted to say is that, you know, as a person of color, as a queer person

of color, I kind of felt really alone when I first came into the rooms and so if you're

a queer person, if you're a queer person of color, if you're someone who belongs to a group

that isn't represented very well within the rooms of AA, you're not alone and come talk

to it.

But I, since I didn't hear that personally, when I first came, thought I'd just throw

that out there.

So I do have a sponsor and I'm taking the steps right now, beginning that process, so I'm

just really going to talk about the first step because it was the one that I had the most

difficulty with the first time around, which was in March 2014, it was when I first got

sober.

So I guess a little bit of background information is that I was adopted when I was three, three

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