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Now, I would like to take a moment or two before I start talking, and welcome you people

to our colleagues anonymous, those of you who are fairly do, those of you who did not identify

yourself it or not, until you have no one has that you're a part of a fellowship that

has astounded science for a great many years. This is the largest group of people in the world

who have found a way to go from my lessons to senility without ever bothering to pass

through maturity. So welcome. And if some of you are having a little problem, putting

drinking, I would like to tell you that putting drinking is like making love to a gorilla,

and you are not through until a gorilla is through. But I'm sure that if you keep coming back,

hit yourself a sponsor. Have them explain to you what's in this book, that your chances

will be far greater than they would if you try to do it any other way. Now, I don't talk

too much about what the drinking was like. And I've got three pretty good reasons for

not. The first one is that I never developed a fascination for the LAPD version of the

way I drank. I never got overly fond of my first wife's version of the way I drank.

And I don't remember how I drank. And if you drank like me, the chances are you wouldn't

remember much of it either. But I understand that this is not necessary to remember how

I drank. It's only necessary to remember what happened in that last drunk as best I can.

Now, I'm not saying this specifically. I recently retired. And they sent me a record of my work.

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