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My name is Burns and I'm an alcoholic.

I appreciate y'all asking me to come and let me clear up

something before I start. I'm a little nervous today now I do I travel and do a lot of speaking. I cut back on it in the last five or six years for a lot of reasons, but I almost never get nervous, but I'm a little nervous today.

And I was asking myself as I was sitting there listening to

y'all talk why I was a little bit nervous and I realized this is the first time that I've

ever spoken before a group that speaks a different language from me.

And so what I've done is I've asked, I was going to ask Kevin to interpret for me,

but I listen to him talk here, I don't think that'll work so I'm

going to ask Bud to interpret for me because he still speaks my language now it's

bad enough to be from the United States, but I'm from Kentucky.

And that makes a huge difference, even if you're in the United States, if you're from Kentucky.

And the only way I know that I'm close to home is when we say the Lord's prayer at the end we finish at the same time and many places that's not true.

You've asked me to come and share with you my experience, strength, and hope.

And what I was like, what happened, and what I'm like today.

That's an evolution, as most of you know, who are in recovery.

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