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Hi, I'm Mary DeAlcoholic and I'm low, I'm an alcoholic.

All right, thank you ladies for the opportunity to be of service and I'm especially grateful

for low to partner with me as I have witnessed low in my journey with her as her life has

just exploded by living this design for living.

And so she will be presenting with me and was kind enough to do this service work with

me.

So the point of the conversation today is to look at the preface and the first four forwards.

And at first blush, it's like, oh gosh, why would we want to do that?

And really the reason is, and the reason I take sponsors through this is, we'll just

get a little bit of basic history about what the big book is, how the big book was built

to give us kind of a landing pad on that.

And then interesting enough, the preface and the forwards give some context about why the

big book and low and I'll give a little bit of, you know, a few of the details behind

the context and what's, you know, really remarkable is even with the preface and the forwards

as short as they are and the context as it's written, we can spend hours on it.

It's remarkable, but we won't do that today.

We're just going to hit some of the highlights that we've collected through our conversations

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