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Give me a little bit time to to still enjoy while I'm still alive and thank you Cyrus

for your kind introduction.

I believe the way you explained it was for more it was more the other way around but it

was a nice time and it was a nice way to do service and for us it was I don't know for

you but for me it was the beginning of a whole new phase and I like to thank the convention

committee and I'm just looking at you guys but I'm not sure if that perhaps all the

people present I like to thank you very much for the invitation also your room and I consider

it a great honor and I am not a I am not a experienced convention speaker I'm not I'm not

a speaker I'm I'm so by then more of a collection on us and everyone's in a while in my

hometown and yesterday am I getting hired to be the speaker for the speakers meeting

in on Sunday and the afternoon and I always like to do that I'm always also very very

nervous about it but it gets better over the years and being a speaker is a little bit

like drinking I feel when you have done it for a while you think well I can't miss it I

kind of I think it would be nice to be a speaker for another time and then you're standing

there and you think oh my god how do I get myself in this mess again I should have I

should have known better my name is Ari I'm an alcoholic I'm very grateful to be sober today I'm

very grateful to be at this convention and I came to where a a on the 4th of August 1989 and

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