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My name is ERISA, and I'm most definitely an alcoholic.

Good to see you all.

The date of my last drink was October the 13th of 1993, and I don't know about you, but for me, that's a long time between drinks. Way too long is what I would have said when I walked in the doors of Alcoholics Anonymous. Because when I walked in the doors of Alcoholics Anonymous, if you tried to tell me that, you know, I wasn't going to be drinking, I'm thinking it's time for new friends, you know, like, that's just the girl that I was.

Like, I'm the classic, classic alcoholic, you know, the kind they talk about in the doctor's

opinion, you know, the one who's restful, restless, irritable, and discontented unless,

unless I get that drink, you know.

And, you know, I love step 11. And thank you for

asking me to come and talk to you about step 11. You know, what I really, really believe is that steps 10 and

11 are the ones that actually catapulted me into that fourth dimension of existence.

That fourth dimension, you know, is time.

You know, it's about being able to be here now.

And the reason that I picked the quote, right, it works if we have the proper attitude and work at it.

Right.

The reason I chose that one is because from the very beginning,

when I walked in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous,

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