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My name is Margie, I'm an alcoholic,

and a member of the Prince George Group in Hamilton.

It's a magic group. I want to thank my friend Brian for

repping us and Brad for repping us and coming down here to your speaker later from

there and my friend's Mark and his partner and Jillie who's my wife's sponsor.

I quickly tell you about my beautiful wife Leslie.

She's one of the most amazing alcoholics anonymous members that I know.

And we have these manifestations that exist inside of us.

I'm not going to sort of belabor it today,

but they usually show up in resentment or fear and our conduct sexually.

That's usually how they show up in this alcoholics those manifestations. Her primary and chief

manifestation is fear and what happened is that state began to get closer and

closer she began to become more and more fearful and I could sense that she was

pulling back and withdrawing and I'm telling this loud and clear in front of all

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