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I'm Mary and I'm alcoholic, recovered alcoholic, grateful to be sober and to be here with you

all tonight.

Can you hear me okay?

Okay, perfect.

To set the tone to be loud and proud in the rooms of alcoholics anonymous.

My sobriety date is November 11, 1989 and I have a sponsor and my sponsor as a sponsor

and I sponsor a bunch of great women and a few of them are on the screen tonight and

are in the meeting and God bless them and you have a home group just for now group and

Boca Richon, Florida and I come from the Pacific Northwest and I mean I'm just going to start

this out by saying I don't know the like the last few hours.

I've just really felt like a lot of emotion has come up around this topic and it's just

things that God's been stirring in my heart and it's just kind of been like flashes of

areas of my life where God has given me the ability and it's only by His grace and it's

only by His mercy that I can even get to a place of forgiveness and so it just has been

I don't know, God just took me on a little bit of a sentimental journey, not a morbid reflection

journey because we can say that, you know, we can look back at places of our life and have

regrets and have sadness about things and all that and that's our huming

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