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If y'all go blind, I'd like to just do that serenity prayer real quick.

It's okay with everybody.

God?

Grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change,

the courage to change the things that I can

and the wisdom to know the difference.

Amen. Thank you all.

Yeah, so I appreciate the introduction, Leitham. It was a really cool experience for me as it tends to be when these kind of things happen to meet somebody and really discover that not necessarily

the world as a whole, but especially the AA world is very, very small.

And I find more and more that with even just the smallest amount of effort, you know, sometimes just showing up,

you can get some pretty amazing rewards.

And a lot of that, a lot of time that comes in the form of realizing that you share the same

ideas or that you might have certain teachers that you both follow.

And when you both do that somewhat blindly, say if it's a speaker that you both like

and you've never even met this person yet, you can sit there and have an interesting conversation

as if you were talking about a philosopher or, you know, that is a cool experience for me.

And before, it was an experience that I could really only get when I was sitting at a bar stool and I was really trying whatever.

I was trying the hardest I could not to feel alone in the world.

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