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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day and and celebrate this anniversary the

78th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous and uh I on And on a personal note, I just came to say thank you.

Thank you, thank you, Alcoholics Anonymous.

Thank you for having me, Dane, and thank you, Sandy, for picking us up at the airport

and being just the number one host in the

world and taking good care of me and my husband and Kathy for the beautiful gift baskets and

my husband for taking the weekend to come out here with me and celebrate with all of you.

And my husband was one of the gifts of the program. I met him when I, well, I knew him in AA for quite some time, but we got together when I was

21 years sober and 51 years old.

So, you know, there's hope for you.

Ha ha.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

I'm glad I didn't stand around tap my foot waiting for that one, you know.

I can't get sober if I don't have a boyfriend, you know.

But he's the first face I want to see in the morning. He's the last face I want to see before I go to sleep at night.

And it was Alcoholics Anonymous that made me ready to be able to see and accept a gift like that.

There wasn't always so.

And I mean, he's perpetually joyful, he's nonviolent.

He's got no recent prison experience, and I could have walked right by him, you know what I mean?

I just could have missed it completely.

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