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I'm Addie, and I am an alcoholic.

Hi.

And I don't know if they left my left and if it'll off on purpose or not, because I know

it's changed to bit you guys, but really, come on now. Can everybody hear me? No? Oh, wow. Okay. How about now?

Is that better? Okay. I'm a little shorter than most people, I guess.

I spent my life wanting to grow longer legs than it never happens, you know.

It's kind of that disease of alcoholism that if you're tall, you want to be short,

and if your hair's straight, you want it curly. And on and on and on.

Yeah, everybody's nodding.

I want to thank Bill and Mike for inviting me here.

This is an awesome experience.

For a lot of reasons, a number of years ago, I attended meetings at the Northside Group in Modesto and I see some

old friends here and it's just a joy to see Al and Ruth and Bud oh God you know I mean

this has been a lot of years a lot of water under the bridge in that period of time I'll

tell you that was about that period of time when, well, I had a long-term marriage

at one time.

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