Good Day Everyone!!  My name is Anthony and I am a grateful recovering alcoholic.  I want to inform all of you that I have been clean and sober since Wednesday May 2, 1990.  This is my 33rd  consecutive year being clean and sober.  What I have learned about the AA Fellowship is that I am not alone.  I am among millions of alcoholics in recovery worldwide.  I admit that I am powerless over alcohol and my life is unmanageable.  I do have problems other than alcohol that I am currently dealing with.  I suffer from a mental illness called Schizoid Affective Disorder.  I have been suffering from a mental illness for 26 years now.  I did not find out that I had a mental illness until Tuesday July 15, 1997.  I was living in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Area at the time.  I attended AA Meetings in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Area for 12 years.  Currently, I am living in the Dayton, Ohio Area right now.  I still have my information from Charlotte, NC.  I am still clean and sober.  It has been 33 years and I am still clean and sober.  I have a lot of gratitude for the AA Fellowship.  I am still working on myself.  This is because I realize that I am my own problem.  Jeremiah 10:23 says O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himse, it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.  This means that God is doing for me more than I am doing for myself.  My Sponsor has me reading the Bible each day of the week.  I am praying more and I am attending Church.  However, I have a broken jaw at the moment.  Therefore, please keep me in your prayers.  Thanks!!

Sincerely,

Anthony Hopkins Grateful Recovering Alcoholic.