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My name's Kimberly Ann.

I'm a grateful recovered alcoholic.

Oh, my God.

I'm going to cry, and I haven't even gotten started yet.

Wow.

My sponsor is Claire.

My home group is the South Philadelphia group of alcohols anonymous.

My sobriety date is January 23rd, 1994.

And through the grace of Almighty God, my higher power, I have not found an excuse necessary

to pick up a drink, a drug, or any mind, or mood-altering chemicals since that time.

That is a bona fide miracle.

I'm sure that everybody feels like in this room that they know the hand of God has moved in their life.

I'm telling you, I can never, the way I feel about that, I can never give back to Alcoholics Anonymous

and the God of my understanding that which he has given to me. I am grateful to be alive. I am grateful to be sober. I am

floored to call myself recovered. I met, I had the pleasure of meeting a young man and talking

to him on a couple occasions. and we talked about the idea of being

recovered and I always say I'm recovered and I absolutely know that of myself I am nothing

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