Hello and welcome to Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker Meetings and workshops in podcast format.

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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day thank you ashay i'm phyllis and i am an

alcoholic and my sobriety date is December the second 1980 and my home group is croton hudson in new york

and it's such a pleasure to be here um you know December the 2nd, 1980, and my home group is Croton Hudson in New York.

And it's such a pleasure to be here.

You know, your friends at GSO have mentioned so many times when they heard I was coming to old granddad.

They said, oh, gosh, you're going to old granddad, and everyone there knows you and sends their very best wishes and has such fond memories.

Many of them have come to join you and I'm very excited that I now have the opportunity.

And I want to thank the host committee.

I know how much work it is to host and to be of service, you know, to AA in this way.

And it does take a number of people that's never one.

It's just like what we do in sobriety.

You know, it's never one.

It's just a number of us and groups of us and working together that we are able to make successes like this.

So thank you so much for all you've done.

And for everybody that's been here participating, I've had a wonderful time. And it's times like this that we can all

join together and form new fellowship that is so meaningful in our sobriety and enriches us

in so many different ways.

And one of those, of course, was the biggest treat to me was being with Ashley.

I think she knows my story much better than she realizes.

From what she, the questions that she asked and everything, I felt like,

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