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Good evening everyone.

My name is Anne Raman Alcoholic.

And it's really nice to be here this evening. I see some familiar faces and it's nice to see everybody.

I understand the topic tonight is practicing the principles in all of our affairs and as I was sharing with a friend of mine before the meeting I was thinking how am I going to go and share about I'm practicing the principals in all my affairs and I honked at six people on my way home tonight in rush hour traffic and when I honk I don't just honk, I'm not like the little beep, I'm like the

lean into it, like get out of my way, I control the universe and you just got in it. Problem driver that I am.

And a friend of mine actually said to me, she said,

well, the fact that she didn't kill anybody is kind of practicing the principles

and all your affairs.

And I was like, I guess you could look at it that way.

But before I get all the way up to step 12,

and I know that you all have gone through the first 12 steps at this point. I just want to touch on the fact that I know

for me that I am an alcoholic of the hopeless variety. There is no doubt in my mind that I have the physical

craving when I put alcohol into my body.

I have had experiences where I have said I'm only going to have one drink and next thing you know I

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