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Well thank you very much, pleasure to be here and I'm just adjusting myself here.

Where do you stand, where do you sit?

Quite often if people see me with a mic on my hand, I usually start singing, but not today.

My name is Archie, I'm an alcoholic and there's a pleasure to be here today and it's also

a great pleasure to see some of the people who actually traveled because of who I was

speaking here today.

Not money, two or three, two or three.

But that's just more on the friendship we've got back many, many years, which is a wonderful

thing of this fellowship.

I was just thinking that sitting there and I was trying to gather my thoughts and you

know, sound out a few thoughts to the person, the myharapar, which is not that far removed

from the glutamate childhood.

Just thinking in terms of, first time I was asked to speak at a gallery in above a, you

know, say, ten or twelve people, was on a little convention of bellfast, I get sober

and bellfast, you can tell from the accent, I'm not from London, I've lived in London

for many years, but I was born a bellfast, I get sober and bellfast, and I was asked to

speak at this little convention, you know, maybe I don't know, sixty-seventy people because

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