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I want a number of other topics,

but it's the first time that I've ever been asked to do in this context.

I've done them with my partner before but it's the first time without her.

And I just want to let you know that for where I'm at at this very moment in time, it is such an appropriate topic for me.

I stand before you. I'm 53 years old and for the first time in 23 years, approaching 23 years, I'm actually

living with somebody again.

So I spent 22 years in a few months alone and liked it.

To be quite honest with you.

There's a lot to be said for living alone and I learned a lot in that period of time.

I was married to one of those three alcoholics that I hooked up with.

The other two were just long-term relationships quasi-live-in.

It's always been a place another house I could retreat to or that she could retreat to.

And on September 22nd that ended.

And so it's a new chapter for me.

Many years ago, my sponsor lives in Little Rock

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