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Good morning everybody, my name is Chris.

I'm an alcoholic.

First and foremost, or I will forget, I need to thank Doug and the committee and anyone

else responsible for putting on this wonderful event.

I say we give them a big round of applause this morning.

I have had the gift and the privilege of helping put on a conference or something like

that and what I know to be true is there's a whole lot of people that are behind the scenes

at an event like this and I really want to thank them because they are the ones that

are doing it from such a place of beautiful humility and service work.

It's just amazing.

There's a million volunteers go into a program like this.

So I would like to thank Tina for being a beautiful, wonderful hostess for me this weekend.

It's been absolutely delightful and Judy, I don't know where Judy is.

I promised her I would tell this little story this morning.

She makes these beautiful little flowers, right?

These beautiful chrissages.

Well, when Doug showed me to my room when I arrived here on Friday, he pointed it out and

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