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Thanks very much, J.W.

Well, my name is Bill, and I am an alcoholic.

And I know it's routine to begin by thanking everybody

who is responsible for my being here.

And I wish there was some way of expressing my thanks

without its sounding routine.

I have done this kind of thing a couple of times before, but I have never, never, never, ever been more thankful than I am to be with you

this weekend, with you here in Hilton Head.

I was never more thankful to be with any other people.

I arrived here from the far side of the country, and I was in thoroughly bad shape.

I guess, I don't know whether you're the same as me or I'm the same as you, but

even with being in this program, times come when I go temporarily insane.

Literally, literally.

And I was right in the middle of one of my insanity bouts when I arrived here.

You see, about two days before, oh dear, I had been asked to talk about us, to talk about

AA, to talk about us alcoholics.

To an audience of non-alcoholics, as a matter of fact, to an audience consisting of my own bishop and a whole crowd of clergy.

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