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Thank you. Hi, everyone. My name is Karen. I'm an alcoholic. Thank you, Jill, and

everyone that does service in jealous. Thank you for asking me. I wanted to come along

and share this privilege and on-art to be asked to service, and I only found out yesterday

that the meeting is actually based in Hinden, but I've got my niece here for Easter, so I

didn't really want to leave her, so I'll shout out to a few people that I know in the

room there. It's nice to see friendly faces and nice to meet people that I haven't met

before. It's a long time to share, so I put my timer on, and I don't know. When I get

started sometimes, I can't stop, and if I'll keep an eye on the time anyway. If anybody's

new to the fellowship, like welcome, it's a really scary place to come into. I've found

it a very scary place. I always say that it was like the first day at school walking

into a meeting of alcohol, it's anonymous. I was absolutely broken, like a lot of you

can relate to. A lot of my beliefs that I had in my first few years, I don't believe

them now. I had this belief system that everybody in the rooms was like all friends,

and nobody was going to like me. I was just baffled. I ended up where I ended up really,

even with the wreckage of my past. If you're new and you've come in and you've fallen

in a bus and lost your mobile phone and you're here, or welcome, it's not competition

here of who's got the worst story, but unfortunately, for me, I found my rock bottom and it had

a trap door and I went down and then I got a shovel and I started digging. I will keep

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