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Hi, my name is ESA, I'm an alcoholic.

And I'm an alcoholic. Right. Wow, what an honor be be here. There's so many people. Like Tricia said, she's been my friend for a long time, so even back and forth torturing each other,

asking each other to do open talks on stuff like that.

Let's see here.

I'll start from the

I should start with I qualify for many programs and I'll say that because I'm going to talk about the family disease that I have.

Let's see here, I'm the eldest of six.

I grew up in mostly Lansing but all over Michigan.

My mom was here and my dad was in California.

So I bounced around a lot, but I was raised mostly by my mother.

During that process I think I went to something like 10 different

schools. There wasn't a lot of stability in my life.

And from what I figure, it's pretty important to have that,

to understand what that should look like or feel like security.

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