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Good evening everybody, my name is Chris and I am an alcoholic.

Very very grateful to be here tonight and this has been an incredibly interesting commitment

for me because it really is the first time I've been exposed to this draft of Bill's story.

And again it predates the edited version that ended up in the original manuscript and

that predated the version that ended up in the first printing, first edition of the

big book.

So I always believe it's interesting to go back to the earliest layer of any tradition.

If you want to study religion what you do the same thing, you go back to the earliest

layer of tradition in that religion to really see what's going on because what happens

is over the course of time, over the course of years, over the course of more and more

literature being published, more and more layers of strata get put on top.

And sometimes it's difficult to really get to the actual truth about what was going

on during that period of time of miracles.

And the first four years or so, five, six years of alcoholic synonymous was the time

of miracles.

People who had suffered utter destitution were being raised to up and reborn and

became recovered alcoholics and were able to move on with their life.

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