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I'm Jen, I'm an alcoholic.

My severity date is September 11th, 2013. I have a home group which is in Brentwood, Tennessee. We meet every day at one o'clock. So if you're in the Nashville area, please come see us. We have a great meeting.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, it's Big Book or 12 and 12 and the rest of the time is mostly topic discussion meetings,

but we do have on Friday, Saturday, and Sundays, it's newcomer meeting. discussion meetings.

I have a I have a sponsor, she's in the room.

Wait, Christy.

And I sponsor people. Those three things are staples in my sobriety that help me stay sober.

Right, let me qualify myself. I get 50 minutes, this is awesome, this is so much more like the meeting than America than in the UK because normally I only get 20 minutes and I have to try to jam everything I've screwed up on in 20 minutes. So I had my first drink at 14 years old in the parking lot of my high school, which for you Brits is I think called upper school. It was I'm the middle child. I have an older sister and a younger

brother and my older sister in my little middle head child head was beautiful and I was just okay and my brother was the boy so I sort of disappeared I wasn't I didn't have you know and so my sister is dragging me to this dance she's

a sophomore she knows everyone she's pretty she's popular and she says I have to go

because see that's what you do and I didn't want to go.

But I went and there was wine in the backseat of that car and I just chugged away.

And I found liquid courage that day, I still can feel it going down.

You know, it burned, but the effect, I loved it.

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