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We have Barb S from the Magothy 12 and 12 group, and Emily D from the Hopkins group.

They'll be sharing on their experience with the steps one, two, and three, which are one, we admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives have become unmanageable. Two, came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Three, made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood him. Take it away. Thanks. My name is Emily. I'm an alcoholic.

My Friday date is February 1st, 2008.

As he said, my home group is Hopkins.

I have a sponsor, and I sponsor men and women in Alcoholics Anonymous, and I'm really glad to be here today, but not so glad to be first.

Anyway, I was very grateful to be asked to speak on one, two, and three.

I actually did a third step with a Sponsie the other night,

and it's just as powerful doing it with somebody else as it was.

First time I took the third step, but stepping back a little bit, I've heard people say that they did the first step

before they ever came into AA.

And I have to admit that I'm one of those people.

It wasn't a problem for me to come in and admit my alcoholism

because I have been doing it in bar rooms for years. My mother got sober when I was 19 years old and she was whisked

away to rehab and I felt really bad for her and because I was just beginning to really get

started drinking. I was in college and And that summer, while she was at Father

Martins, we learned about alcoholism. My father took my sister and I to the Dick Prote

Lecture Series at Shepard Pratt, and we learned about the science behind alcoholism,

the disease. And it was that summer that I diagnosed myself already at 18 or 19. I knew,

you know, hearing this man talk about what the disease, how it, you know, how it came out in people,

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