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AA in Twelve Steps With Ethel-Egg

January 25, 2011 in Life

1. Hello, my name is Ethel-Egg and I’m a forty-two-year-old single female and an alcoholic.

2. This did start out as 20 Things, but I’m going to tell another story: my first AA meeting. Was it 1992?

3. I had hit rock bottom, and Mum had agreed to come with me to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. I’d not lost my job, but I was getting very close to it.

4. I was at the bottomest as bottom could be. I was twenty-four. I had broken down after Dad died, but it took a couple of years for the full emotional breakdown to happen.

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