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Hey everybody, my name is Leslie.

Can you see me?

I worried myself sick that you would be able to see me over this big podium.

I want to thank Mary, C, and Russ B for asking me, it took a little bit of doing.

They actually, if I'm not mistaken, asked me last year and something came up and they

hounded me relentlessly.

No, I have been blessed with a very big life because of the things that I learned in these

rooms.

Another room, I'm a double whiner, as the, you know, winner, winner, double winner.

And I'd also like to address, you know, we, for our, no one really stood up as new but

I'm sure there are people who are either not standing up or are newer and we have creed

where we do, we, we keep Alan on as the focus so we don't talk about our other programs.

We don't talk about our job, our religion, this and that.

But I remember when I was a kid, my mother would say to me, you know, honey, just because

it pops into here, it doesn't have to come out of here.

And so sometimes I may accidentally, and it's not that I don't have respect.

There's reasons for those, but anyway, because of the, the, the, the years that I've spent,

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