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Howdy, everybody.

My name is Texas Tea and I'm an alcoholic.

And thank you Young for asking me to speak at this meeting. I love this meeting.

I love AA, but I especially love this meeting because I love, I love I love meetings that talk about the solution all the solution based meetings because that's that's why I'm here all of my old ideas aren't going to work and I

hate to say but your old ideas aren't going to work for me either. I need all the ideas that I have gotten from the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous of 12 and 12,

they're spiritual ideas.

And none of my old ideas

thought that the solution to my troubles was spiritual. In fact, my old ideas actually thought that if I quit drinking alcohol, that all my problems would go away. I didn't even know that alcohol was my

solution, not the problem that my problem was my thinking and that this that all of that my disease it's in the it's in the it's in my mind it's a

mind power disease is centered in my mind and I had that all of those mental twists and and you know why I

started drinking probably for the same reason most of you, if not all of you did. I like the effect. I like that it took me away from me. It got me out of me. It made me into a superhero. I was

lovable. I was cute. I was smart. I was funny. And I didn't care if you liked me because I loved me. I mean it was just I didn't realize

how self-centered alcohol made me, but it really made me self-centered.

And before I started drinking, I was uncomfortable with my own skin. I was full of fear.

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