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My name is Polly Frile and I'm an alcoholic.

And by God's grace in a program called Alcoholics Anonymous, I haven't had a

drink since April, the 11th of 1977. And for that, I am eternally grateful. I have a home

group and that's the West Connecticut group in Jacksonville, Florida. We meet at 7 o'clock on Monday nights.

I have a sponsor.

My sponsor has a sponsor and I sponsor and the women I sponsor,

and so on and so forth.

And I am beyond honored to be here.

And I know today and I'm going to talk about it, that I'm here to talk about step 12. But there is no way that I can even say anything without talking about how important the people are in Bellingham, Washington,

Birch Bay, Washington, all the towns surrounding Bellingham, how important those people are to me.

And that Dave and I moved to Bellingham, Washington, or Birch Bay, Washington in 2003.

And I can't remember what the dates are, but I'm sure that Eileen and Don and Bob and Mary Jo Will because we were all the first ones that we

re we resurrected the Mount Baker Roundup and it was being a part of this and being a

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