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I'm Bill S. of an alcoholic by the grace of God, I'm sober tonight and that's the most

important thing that I will share with you from this podium that it is by the grace of

a loving God and the tender loving care people like you in rooms like this that I have

awakened for the last 8,281 mornings without a hangover.

I'm going to prove to you that I know how the alcoholic mind works.

Three-fourths of you are going head-to-head, we're trying to figure that out.

That computed July 26, 1982 and that never ceases to amaze me.

I want to thank Jeff for the invitation to come up here.

When he called me last summer he said come on up, it'll be nice and cool in North Dakota.

Boy, I don't exaggerate and I especially want to thank Jim.

He's terrific host, he's made my wife and me feel very welcome, very comfortable.

Excuse me, I've enjoyed the time we've had to gather and look forward to the rest of the weekend as well.

I want to say at the outset that there was a time when I used to think that the height

stature you achieve in alcoholic synonymous is speaker, it isn't.

The height of achievement in alcoholic synonymous is sober.

We speakers get to sound authoritative when we come from a long way off.

Now I've come over a thousand miles and so I'm going to sound real authoritative tonight or I would

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