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I'd like to now introduce our guest speaker for the month, and that would be Lisa R. from

Brooklyn, and she would be sharing her experience, strength, and hope on Steps 1 and 2 tonight.

My name is Lisa, and I am an alcoholic, and I'm so very privileged and honored to be here

tonight.

I'd like to thank your group, and in particular, Mike and Kathy for asking me to be here.

I've been fortunate to visit here for two different months' worth of speakers, and I've gotten

a lot out of that experience, and I'm very happy to be here tonight, and hopefully, the

next few weeks, to share my experience with you.

Well, I'll tell you that they had to do a hoosoo about me in AA.

My sobriety day in February 27, 1988, I'm a member, and reasonably good standing at my

home group.

The free spirit group, and that's in her spoken, I say reasonably, because I do not have

hair high enough, or fingernails long enough, for the neighborhood, but they let me talk

because of the third tradition they allow me in.

I also don't have any cold chains, but nonetheless, they do allow me in, and I'm grateful

for that.

The thing I learned at my first day in needing was to learn how to laugh, and that's the

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