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My name is Adam, I'm an alcoholic.

I want to first thank you for inviting me to come talk tonight. It's always an honor and

a privilege to be asked to participate in alcoholics and onamis. Ultimately, it's a responsibility

to give back what was so freely given to me. I want to welcome anybody that's new. You

know, if you're trying AA one more time, perhaps you don't think this will work for you.

If you don't want to be here tonight, you know, if you think this is all a big misunderstanding,

sorry, it's come to this. I mean, I don't mean to be funny, but alcoholics and onamis

wasn't on my to-do list. You know, I didn't get to AA because I had a bad weekend. I had

a couple of bad decades. And for me, like a lot of us, this had to become a matter of

life and death. Where I live in Southern California, Los Angeles, they give chips for, you

know, 30, 60, 90 days. I think they do that everywhere. And I was one of those perpetual

chiptakers. I had so many chips and key tags. I could have played poker with them. I mean,

it was awful. I remember the secretary in one meeting saying, give them back. You know,

I recycled through the rooms for 17 years. And I thank God for the unconditional love

and the compassion of the old timers who I remember saying, don't even bother taking

chips, kid. Just sitting the back, shut up. But they made it very clear to me that the

doors of alcoholics and onamis would continue to be open. And if and when I was ready to

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