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Hi, I'm Ascurd and I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, I want to thank the whole group for asking me to come, and especially Carla, and for her ongoing service here.

It's really good to be here.

I think this is my second or maybe even third time here.

Welcome to all the newcomers and out-of-counters, and happy birthday to the birthday people.

It's really beautiful to see Alcoholics Anonymous and people that have trudged the road and really walked through the steps and had a psychic change.

And if those people weren't there when I came in, I have no place to go either.

So it's a privilege.

It really is.

I'm a retread.

I mean, this is my second time getting sober.

And the first time I got sober, I did the steps as a homework assignment, and I didn't listen,

and I didn't apply things, and I didn't really have a God.

And I just thought, you know really have a God and I just thought

you know

get a sponsor and get through the steps

and clean some ash phase

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