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Hi everybody, I'm Larson, I'm a grateful member of Alina.

Thank you all and for the invitation to get to be here and I want to thank Dave.

He's a pretty much amazing guy.

I am just so grateful to have his friendship and to be as close to him as I am.

He's gotten a lot better because he's known me, that's what I always want to tell him,

but I will tell you what I've learned from Dave, you know, and I've learned about kindness

from Dave, I've learned we don't throw people away, everybody has value whether we can

see it or not, and I've learned from Dave that there's room for everybody here if we

just make room for him, you know, and I'm a better person for knowing that.

So I love you Dave and thank you so much for doing this with me tonight.

Anyway, I am a very grateful member of Alimon.

I never thought I would ever say that.

I just certainly didn't come into Alimon wanting to be grateful, but today I am especially

grateful member this year marks my 40th year in Alimon.

I celebrated 40 years in June and I tell you, boy, I always tell people if I came in

now and on that day and they would have said, Lord, senior, you're going to be here for

40 years, I would have run out that door screaming, bloody murder because I had no intention

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