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My name is Johnny and I am an alcoholic and I shall be an alcoholic until a day I die.

What I tell you today is an observation, an opinion or a conviction that I have arrived at from the fellowship of alcoholics and animals.

I am going to have to keep it as honest as I can only because do your speeches sitting out there and he was there when this whole thing started for me.

And I have to keep it as clean as possible because my wife and daughters sitting out there and father Charlie is up here behind me.

And I sure don't want to beat myself out of any indulgence.

The right hand is not what I'm talking about. I don't know when I became an alcoholic.

It's not at all impercult at this point.

And how I became an alcoholic is a matter of who is making the analysis.

Now when I say I'm an alcoholic that means there's some things that I am not.

I am not an ex-alcoholic and I am not a cure drug.

And if there are any of the professionals in the crowd, I shall say for you benefit consider me an arrested case of lips and lenient.

But when I came to an alcoholic synonymous there was nowhere else to go.

I have been assured that it is not hereditary or there.

I suppose heredity and environment has something to do with it.

But I would rather believe that just falling down the stairs in the neighborhood taverns when I was drunk under the latrine had something to do with it too.

It really softens your head up.

But until I came to an alcoholic synonymous I was the smartest man I had ever met.

Anywhere I had never made a mistake.

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