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Hello, my name is Tom, and I am an alcoholic, and I'm in great need of 100,000 Allen-on meetings.

Thanks for the invitation to come to Crested Butte.

I have not been in this part of the world before, and I envy you your reign.

I'm from Northern California, and we are dry.

So I had a little envy and resentment, but it passed.

I got a letter, the committee prepares, and you get lots of letters and lots of information.

And there was one of the letters said, and we expect you to wear a tie.

Good luck.

And I don't, and I suggest it an alternative, and they graciously yielded.

I'm one of those Catholic priests who's sober.

There's lots of us.

There's lots more that need to be.

And it's interesting, so many of, I'm a member of the Jesuit community.

I notice there's a Jesuit t-shirt back there.

I want to congratulate you on your common sense and clear wisdom.

It's all part of my being alive.

In the 1960s, the leadership of my community and a lot of church groups got educated on alcoholism.

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