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We are so lucky today to have our guests, our panelists.

We have Jeff from Chicago, Illinois, and Megan from St. Louis, Missouri.

They're going to talk today about returning to schools.

They're going to school sober.

Very exciting.

I know for me, I got out of jail.

This is Jeff.

Arkansas.

I'm sorry.

I'm all over the place.

Welcome. Good to see you. Have a seat. For me, I got out of jail. I spent six months in jail, and then I went right back to college, and it was a surreal experience. It was like I was on sabbatical, and I showed up, and some of the people knew, like, one of my teachers, his wife was the prosecuting attorney that put me in jail you know and I was in class once and I said is there a vending

machine around here and he was like yeah but there's no beer in it so you don't need it you know

and I was like whoa but I had all kinds of awkward experiences after that and just being there

and thinking everybody knew you know they all knew they knew, they all knew, they all knew. It was really just terribly awkward experience for me, but I got through it for that small time that I went back and it was only because of people on Alcoholics Anonymous and go hang out with them, you know, and so I'm really excited to hear you guys talk and we're just going to go right down the list.

So I'm Jeff, Jeff from Chicago.

Thank you.

Thanks, Sean, for getting us started.

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