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Thanks guys.

I appreciate it again.

I'm going to follow the theme of playing with the mic here.

No, I really, I really am glad to be here and I appreciate all the panelists and thank

you for asking me to be here.

I would thank Chuck, but he's not here right now, but no, thank Chuck did a really good job

this morning, so I've had a really good time and I love pizza.

So, I have been sober since May 4th, 2005, this is my sobriety day.

My home group is a lost and found group in Marietta, Georgia and I'm going to do what the

book tells me to do, which is to share in a general way what it used to be like, what

happened to me and what it's like now, so remember about Call It's Anonymous.

I was born and raised in Atlanta just outside of Atlanta, Marietta and I was born into an

alcoholic family.

My father was an alcoholic and his whole side of the family was alcoholics.

I had an aunt die of this disease, a grandfather die of this disease and so my parents got divorced

at a really young age.

I don't have much memory of my parents being together and so I was raised by a single

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