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My name is Karen.

I'm an alcoholic.

Thank you, Jill, and And thank you for asking me.

To come along and share it's a privilege and an honor to be asked to do service.

And I only found out yesterday that the meeting is actually based in Hendon, but I've got my niece here for Easter, so I didn't really want to leave her. So a 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 and yeah, 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 if you know I'll keep an eye on the time anyway and if anybody's new to the fellowship like welcome like you know

it's a really scary place to come into. I found it a very scary place. You know, I always say that it was like, you know, the first day at school walking into a meeting of Alkal, it's anonymous, you know, I was absolutely broken like, you know, a lot of you can relate to and, you know, a lot of you can relate to and you know a lot of my beliefs that I had like in my first few years I don't believe them now like you know I had this belief system that you know everybody in the

rooms was you know like all friends and you know nobody was going to like me and you know I was just baffled

that I ended up where I ended up really even with the wreckage of my past and

I'm I don't know if you're new and you've come in and you've you know

fallen in a bush and lost your mobile phone and you're here or you know welcome is not

competition here of who's got the you know, welcome is no competition here of who's got the, you know, the worst story, but unfortunately, you know, for me, you know, I found my rock bottom and it had a trapdoor and I went down and then I got a shovel and I started digging.

You know, I will keep it to Alcoly Synonymous but I'm an addict as well.

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