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Hi, I'm Michael. I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, Michael.

Could everyone hear me?

Yeah.

Okay.

I like to thank Katia for asking me to speak here. Okay. I like to thank Katia for asking me to speak here.

My sobriety date is January 21st of 2001.

It's kind of giving an idea about relapse in my story.

I had my first drink at age 14, my first meeting at age 16,

and then I got sober at 23.

So, out of the nine years that I drank,

only two of them were without a knowledge

of AA. Although

my first time, as you'll hear

in a second, of trying to really get sober

was 18. But between

18 and 23, the most I ever had was 90 days.

But I originally got sober, and I'm from Houston, Texas. I've been in New York for nine years now.

As long as I drank, that's a long time. So, in New York now. But I had my first

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