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Hi everybody, I'm Judy, I'm an alcoholic and I just feel so honored to be in such an

amazing international meeting of people who I know are committed to working the 12 steps

of the program and I wanted to select the theme of being involved because to me, the

action of working in the steps of the program and taking suggestions from people that are

in meetings and following spiritual principles in my life, all really have to do with being

involved.

I am going to tell you a little bit about my tragically traumatic childhood and true and a little

bit about my drinking, but most of my life now, I've been sober.

So I really want to focus a lot on how the program has transformed my life and I went

from a scared, traumatized little girl to out of control, drinker and fell into the arms

of alcoholics anonymous that gave me a life and I joined alcoholics anonymous, well I've

been sober since July 13th, 1977, it took me about a year to really get admitted I was

an alcoholic and to really get serious about being involved in my own sobriety. So I'm trying

to like put that theme in. Anyway, I grew up in Minnesota and it's very cold there and most

everybody in our neighborhood and everybody I knew was either Norwegian, Swedish or Danish

and nobody ever in that culture talks about feelings and everybody just presents an outside image of

what they want other people to think their lives are like and then you just suck it up if something

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