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oh jeez boy it's good to be here.

I'm telling you, I want to thank John for asking you.

Darian has been a great superlative host on the way up here from Billings.

The truck, I got to know more about Daryan than I ever imagined I needed to know, really. God must have thought, you've got a dairy and deficiency in your life. I don't know.

Why do we're kindred spirits?

And, you know, there's, I was thinking, I was,

sometimes when I come to an AA event, I come and I have a really clear sense that I'm there to be useful or do

something or whatever. But this, I've only had this experience maybe a half dozen or so times

in recovery where I come to a weekend and I really get it about halfway through the weekend

that I'm getting more out of this than I'm ever going to effort possibly.

I don't even know what I'm bringing here.

And the reason I get that sense is that there's a feeling that permeates this conference and not a lot of conferences, but this one and a few others I've been to,

where I really get a sense that I am with people that are on the same page about Alcoholics Anonymous.

I get a sense that I am here with people who are in love with Alcoholics Anonymous.

I get a tremendous sense.

You can hear the love affair with AA and recovery,

you can hear it in the laughter.

And I've laughed.

I go to some conferences where we're sober.

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