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I think it's real good to have the surrender prayer right for your talk. I like it late.

You know, you're getting a situation and you have to accept something you can't change

and it's too late to change this. And the reason to have it's a cold in here is that I want

you to think I'm shaking because I'm cold. And I thank you for that. I am Ruth. And I've

loved an alcoholic for 45 years. Most of the time. I have to throw that in because there

were times that I got mixed up between love and hate and I didn't know which was which

or what was going to be. I remember the long creek outline family group in Honest

or North Carolina, which is a very small group out in the country. I had to change my

home group 13 years, seven years ago when we moved. My home group before that and the

one that really got me started in Illinois and it's half on Illinois family group in

Charlotte. And for 13 years, I was a member of that group and they gave me a lot of support.

They gave me a lot of courage, but they got me stared into service work. And our present

delegate now from North Carolina says, and I agree whether that service work is addictive.

You get in it and you just don't get out. And I'm still hanging around and enjoying it.

I'd like to thank the committee for inviting me. I have to admit that when Carol called

me and I said yes and hung the phone up, my mom was not at home and I nearly went to

Houston. I called my sponsor who lives out of town and I said, you know what I've just

done? I said yes to an invitation that I'm not sure of. And she gave me the support

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