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All right, you know, my name is Teresa and I am an alcohol.

And I can't tell you what honor and a privilege it is to be invited to participate in this roundup.

I really don't, I'm not a big sobber, but man, they're just like, I'll probably be sobbing.

When we came down through the lobby, I looked out, when I moved to Montana in February of 1991, I knew one woman who lived in Helena.

And I was dry in the bone. I had been hanging out around AA for two and a half years, doing only what I wanted, only at my convenience, which at that time consisted of a married man about every two weeks.

And it was the same married man it's not like I was tramping around A for fun

you know pad in my expense account at my employer ripping them off on my time sheet and

pretty much going to work you know when I when I could get there, taking a lot of

mental health days off of my job and hanging out at home with my two-year-old daughter, you know,

trying to believe that it was going to get better any minutes.

And we moved out here to Montana because this woman that I knew in Helen would give me a job and there were

cowboys and lumberjacks here I thought and so here we come and today my life is that

lobby is full of people that I know friends of mine some are acquaintances some are people

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