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My name is Kathy and I'm an alcoholic.

Hi.

I'm particularly nervous.

I'm a alcoholic right now.

Before I get started I'd like to thank Paul and Glenn and the rest of the committee

for a wonderful conference.

If this is the first one you guys have done on here it sits fantastic.

I want to thank everybody for wonderful time.

And I also want to thank the committee for asking me to come and share.

I have to take my jacket off, okay you guys, I'll stop at the jacket.

I came back to Santa Cruz this summer and that's where I met Glenn.

I had moved from California about 10 years ago.

I lived in Santa Cruz and when I left Santa Cruz I swore that I would never come back

to this town.

And you know that this town was the problem, not me.

This was the town that I quit bragging about my drinking and started lying about my drinking.

And it was in this town that I did my first armed robberies, it was in this town that

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