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Hi everybody, my name is Kathy and I am an alcoholic.

My home group is the carry this message group of West Orange, New Jersey and my sobriety

date is January 1st of 1991.

Okay, the first thing I want to ask is how many of you are putting Mother Nature in your

first column?

Everybody who had expectations that spring head sprung just got.

I like the cold, so I guess it did, it came back for me.

I'd like to talk a little, yeah just for me, of course I'm in the center of my universe.

I'd like to talk a little bit about start off with more about alcoholism in chapter 3 and

in this chapter is where we kind of start the talking, we start seeing about the mental

obsession with the alcohol.

Now that even when I'm not drinking, I am consumed with the idea of alcoholism or with

alcohol, I should say.

One of the first lines I left in right at the beginning, it talks about the idea that

somehow someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the greatest session of every

abnormal drinker.

I have never in my entire life controlled and enjoyed my drinking.

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