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Hi, I'm Marity Alcoholic.

And I'm Lowe.

I'm an alcoholic.

All right.

Thank you, ladies, for the opportunity to be of service.

And I'm especially grateful for Lowe to partner with me.

As I've witnessed Lowe 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, you know, why would we want to do that? And really the reason is, and the reason I take

sponzi's through this is, is, you know, we'll just get a little bit of basic history about what the big book is,

you know, kind of how the big book was built to give us kind of a landing pad on that.

And then, you know, interesting enough, the preface and the forwards give some context

about why the big book. And Loa 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

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