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My name is Just Dave, and I'm an alcoholic. Just Dave. There's no other Dave's in AA,

is it? Dave K for anybody taking notes or keeping track. You know, I like to congratulate

the celebrants first of all. You know, one of the things I always love about celebration

is it's a sign of hope. It's that small sign of hope of somebody coming in and seeing that

it is actually possible, even though we don't have an indication of what's possible or

what we have to do to reach that goal. We see somebody with a year. I know with me coming

in, I couldn't get more than 30 days in five years. 30 days, and I hear people saying

I have a year. My first reaction is you're lying. You know, all right, you look like crap,

you're drinking every day, aren't you? I honestly, I went to a meeting and they gave me

a coffee commitment, and this is how insane, you know, it is, but they gave me a coffee commitment,

and they said, if you make coffee, you'll get 90 days. This person had the coffee commitment

before you in a celebrating 90 days. And I looked at him and I thought, you're lying. There's

no way you have 90 days because I can't get 90 days. But I did take the coffee commitment,

and I would make coffee every Wednesday. I would drink the entire week before, but if something

was bringing me back to that meeting to make the coffee, I would stop like two days before

to detox. I would, you know, I would show up. I would make the coffee. I'd leave and start

again, not sharing with anybody what's going on, but wanting to be a part of that hope,

wanting to be a part of a community that I was not a part of any community outside of that

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