MY AA JOURNEY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Good Evening Everyone!🙏  How are you doing tonight ?  My name is Anthony Joseph Hopkins and I am from Dayton Ohio.  I am 60 years old.  I have been clean and sober since Wednesday May 2, 1990 at 7:00PM.   I want to inform you that I was court ordered into the AA Fellowship by a Common Pleas Courts Judge in Dayton, Ohio on June 1, 1990.  I want to inform you that I used to have a very serious drug problem because I was taking all of my money and smoking marijuana and crack cocaine cigars on a regular basis.   I used to be married to a female harlot.  She refused to get help for her own drug problems.   I divorced my ex wife because she had infidelity related issues.   She was cheating on me with other men, and I caught her having sex with another man.   I was extremely angry with both of them.   I used to work 3 jobs during that time.  I was not paying my bills.  Instead, I had spent all of my salary on our drug habits.   My ex wife was worse than me at the time.   She was selling her own body for money just to support our drug habits.   During an 18 year period, I was drinking alcohol 🍸 and smoking marijuana on a daily basis.   Honestly, I was a fetal alcohol syndrome baby at birth.  This is simply because my mother used to drink 🍸 alcohol while she was pregnant with me.  Additionally, my mother suffered from post partum depression during that time when I was born.   When I was 3 months old, my mother took me to my grandmother’s house 🏠 to live for 7 consecutive years.   I remember staying with my grandparents.  My grandparents took me to church ⛪️ 3 times per week for 7 years.   My grandmother used to read my children's Bible to me every single day for 7 years.   My grandparents home 🏡 was, and is still in the Lower Westside of Dayton, Ohio.   I was born on Thursday June 24, 1965 at the St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio at 7:30pm.   My mother's name was Mary Lois Hopkins, and my biological father's name was Joseph Odell Webb.   My mother 👩 👩‍🍼 didn't marry my biological father.   I remember spending time with my grandfather, who was living out of state during the summers of 1968 through 1972.  My grandparents didn't drink alcohol.  My grandfather attended church on a regular basis himself.  I do remember dealing with nature.  I used to watch Wild Kingdom on television 📺 at the time ⏲️.   I also used to watch Walt Disney movies and shows during the week.  Also, I want to inform you that my AA Journey really didn't start until I was 7 years old.  During the year 1972, my grandparents took me to my own mother's house to live.  This is when I started drinking 🍸 alcohol and beer as a child.   My mother 👩 married her husband Mr. Willie Andrew Russell Senior until September 18, 1967.  She had given birth to my half sister Patricia Russell.  She passed away on Friday June 2, 2017; from a rare blood disease due to kidney dialysis.  My half sister and I used to walk to Edison Elementary School located on 228 North Broadway Street Dayton, Ohio 45402.  At that time; the zip code was 45407.  My mother's house 🏠 was located on 1119 West Third Street Dayton, Ohio 45407(45402) currently.   My mother had given birth to my half brother Willie Andrew Russell Junior on May 31, 1970.  One year later, she had given birth to my half brother named Dustin Eric Russell.  Afterwards, she gave birth to my half sister named Renee Lynn Russell.  When I started to live with my mother 👩; she was pregnant 🤰 with my half sister Renee.  During that time ⏲️: I had to get used to living in a dysfunctional family household.   My mother and her husband used to take me to bootleg joints as a child.  This is when I was introduced to alcohol 🍸 officially.  My cousin and I used to drink my mother's beer all of the time.  This was also during the time when I started becoming a Juvenile Delinquent.   It had taken me at least 3 years to get used to going back and forth between my mother's house 🏠 and my grandparents house located on 1018 West First Street Dayton, Ohio 45407(45402) currently.   I had suffered a great deal of physical, mental, emotional, and psychological trauma by my mother's husband.   Just because I was not my mother’s husband child, he abused me the most.  I remember when he had put my head inside of a hot stove, and set my hair on fire 🔥.   My mother had shot her own husband for injuring me.  For a total of 7 additional years, my mother had given birth to my half sister Tina Marie Russell, Nathaniel Allen Russell, Daniel Allen Russell, and finally Johnny Lee Hopkins Russell.   We had moved around the city of Dayton, Ohio inside of houses along the Westside of Dayton, Ohio.   I had to attend Edison Elementary School 🏫 for a total of 7 years.  I also attended Franklin School 🏫 for 1 year.  After I had completed grade school 🏫,  I attended Nettie Lee Roth High School from 1979 through 1983.  I will admit that was a time ⏲️ when I started drinking 🍸 alcohol and smoking marijuana on a regular basis.   I had became a Juvenile Delinquent.  This was also during the time ⏲️ I was suspended from school 🏫 for fighting and becoming truant from high school.   I do remember on June 22, 1983, my mother sent me to the Grand Rapids, Michigan Job Corps Center for a short period of time.   I had only stayed there for a total of 4 months.  I got kicked out of Job Corps in Grand Rapids, Michigan because the Administration indicated that I had a very serious problem with drugs.  I had committed an assault on a staff members at the facility.   On Friday October 22, 1983: I was sent back to Dayton, Ohio from the State of Michigan.  My half siblings and I had a real large party at my mother’s house 🏠 located on 13 Edison Street; which was right directly across the street from Edison Elementary School 🏫.   My mother lived there for a total of 4 years.   From 1981 through 1985, my mother stayed at that address.  I do remember drinking heavily during that time because I was involved with street gangs in Dayton, Ohio from 1981 through 1990.  I had formed my own gang called the Automatic Boys 👦 😤.   This is because we were in possession of Automatic Weapons during that time ⏲️ 😤.   From June 10, 1986 until September 1, 1990; I graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School at the Memorial Hall at 7:00PM.   Our graduation ceremony lasted until 9:30pm.   I had caught the bus to my grandmother’s house 🏠.  I had stayed with my grandmother until September of 1986.  I got a job working at Skyline Chili Restaurant and the King Cole Restaurant in Downtown Dayton, Ohio.  I was dealing with female prostitutes/harlots from June 24, 1986 until Friday July 2, 2010.  For a total of 24 years, I was paying for sex.  I had spent over $100,000 dollars on sex with female prostitutes/ female harlots.   I used to live in a Crack house 🏚 🏠 in the Toledo, Ohio Area for 3 years.  I didn't drink alcohol or smoke any marijuana and crack cocaine cigars.   I attended the University of Toledo from Monday April 1, 1991 through June 14, 1996.  I had graduated twice from the University of Toledo with my Associates and Bachelors Degrees.  Subsequently, I ended up moving back to the Dayton, Ohio Area for a period of 1 year.  I was working at Sinclair Community College for 1 year.  I also worked at the King Cole Restaurant as a dishwasher.   I didn't move to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Area until Sunday June 15, 1997.  I left the Dayton, Ohio Area; out of spite, but it was due to family problems.   Prior to that, I was working three jobs in the Toledo, Ohio Area.  I worked at the University of Toledo William Carlson Library on the Campus of the University of Toledo for 4 years.   I had worked at the Jerusalem Outreach Center as a Youth Counselor from 1993-1996.  The address at the Jerusalem Outreach Center was 445 Dorr Street Toledo, Ohio 43602.  The University of Toledo address is 2801 West Bancroft Street Toledo, Ohio 43606.  I used to reside at 126 Rosalind Place Toledo, Ohio 43610.  The Rosalind Place Area used to be a Bloodz Street Gangs turf.  This was located right down the street from Toledo Central Catholic High School 🏫.   The High School is still located on the corner of Cherry 🍒 Street and West Delaware Avenue in the Toledo, Ohio Area.  Right inside of the neighborhood is St. Vincent Hospital 🏥.   1997 to the present day: I used to live at the Men’s Uptown Shelter in Charlotte, North Carolina from June 17, 1997 until Wednesday February 17, 1998. For a total of 8 months; I was homeless.  I ended up living at the Men’s Shelter just to receive an address.  I attended church ⛪️ 🙏 🙌 ☺️ at the Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church ⛪️ right across the parking lot from the shelter.   I lived and worked at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 2001-2009.  I used to live all over the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.  I also worked several jobs during my 12 years of living in Charlotte, North Carolina Area.  I ended up moving back to the Dayton, Ohio Area on Wednesday January 6, 2010.  I had lived all around the Dayton, Ohio Area.   My mother 👩 died on Thursday July 20, 2017.  My biological died on December 17, 2017.  Both of them were 73 when they had passed away.  My mother 👩 and biological father funerals were held at the House of Wheat Funeral Home located on North Gettysburg Avenue in Dayton, Ohio.  My Great Grandmother Funeral was held at McLin Funeral Home 🏡 in Dayton, Ohio.  Currently, I have been clean and sober for going on 36 years now.   I will admit that I suffer from Schizoid Affective Disorder, Diabetes Type 2, Convulsive Syncope, Glaucoma, Eczema, Heart Failure, and Cataracts in both eyes 👀 right now.  I am still working on the 12 Steps of AA Recovery for the past 36 years.  My favorite activities are as follows: Reading 📚 the Holy Bible, Traveling across the United States 🇺🇸 of America, visiting the Library in the Dayton, Ohio Area, and Attending Church ⛪️ and Bible Study 📖 📓 on a regular basis.  I also suffer from Breakthrough Seizures as well.  I am 60 years old.  My name is Anthony Joseph Hopkins, and I am a grateful recovering alcoholic.  I am highly intelligent and highly educated.  I have a real large family right now.  Currently, I have 5 half brothers and 2 sisters. I have a total of 40 neices and nephews right now.  I also have 15 great neices and nephews.  I have relatives in the Dayton, Ohio Area as well as relatives who are currently living in the lower 48 states inside of the United States of America 🇺🇸.  Thank you for keeping it real with me.  Thank you for reading my essay 🙏.