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Hi everybody, my name is Rose.

I'm an alcoholic.

My day of grace is

of grace is May 10th 1998.

I have a sponsor who is taking me through the work.

She has a sponsor. Her sponsor also has a sponsor. I have several

sponges that I take through the work. We do the work right through the big book and what I'm here today to speak to you about is step three.

And we have this little workbook thing that's got a format thing in it and first of all I just want to start out by qualifying very briefly.

The first time I took a drink was about three years old. It was not something that I was like, oh, I need relief. I'm going to take a drink. It was just a pretty pink stuff at a barbecue. You know, it was like wine coolers. It was the 70s, wine coolers were very in. My parents were to party in California

where we lived and I walked around the room after everybody left and went outside to the

hot tub and I drank the pretty pink stuff.

You know, I thought it was kind of cool.

And it was probably fuzzy or something, but it was pretty.

So I drank it.

And everybody thought it was real funny, you know, three-year-old

babbling around, you know, all drunk until I blew pink chunks all over the bathroom.

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