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You think you know me, you don't know me well. episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. You don't know me You don't know me You don't know anybody

Until you talk to someone someone Hi, my name is Roxanna, and my American friends call me Roxanna.

I was going to graduate school on the East Coast, and graduate school ended.

I was active in my addiction with alcoholism,

but I totally hit bottom.

At that period of my life, my family was in the Midwest.

I come from a Muslim family, so there was nobody who drank or did drugs, and so I really had to deal with this on my own.

I had a boyfriend I was living with at the time, and it was like a super toxic relationship that got even more toxic when I tried to get sober.

So I had to move out.

I was in this city by myself, trying to get sober, just had a graduate school.

I was a highly functioning addict slash alcoholics, so I wasn't really able to communicate what was

really happening or what was going on. I'm in this city. I'm trying to get sober.

I'm going to meetings.

I'm trying to reestablish my whole life and learn how to live.

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