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Hello, my name is Tom, and I'm in great need of 100,000 Allen on meetings.

And I think I don't have a specific date for when I got involved in Allen on. There were

a couple of encounters with Allen on. For the first while I was really just visiting,

and I was looking for some quick solutions for some burning problems, and then everything

got much worse, and I became much more interested in Allen on because I wanted to survive.

And I remember being frantic and overwhelmed and angry and exhausted two of my favorite

flavors, and someone gave me a cassette tape of an Allen on speaker from Texas named Blanche.

And Blanche did a lot of speaking for a lot of years, and she died much too soon in the

year 2000. Freak accident, she parked her car and ran over herself. It was just gravity

and bad luck, and I, I miss her terribly, but I was very crazy. And you know, my experience

is when I'm crazy enough, I'll listen to different people. I would prefer to listen to myself

because I have so much to say. But when I'm really frantic, I will hear another voice,

and one of my friends, Sally F, who had been an Allen on for a thousand years, and then

got sober. I got sober and then went to Allen on. So there's the door opens and lots

of ways. Anyway, Sally said, listen to Blanche, she's full of interesting things to say.

And in the tape that Blanche was talking about, she started by saying that she was not

an expert, she was a survivor. And she wasn't in the go-around telling anybody else what

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