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For the fellowship, thank you for the host I've got. Thank you for asking me back. I spoke

here 13 years ago, and as the room was turned around, I think we were over there, but I had

no idea I was supposed to report back 13 years later. But I'm thinking to myself, God,

you guys and gals that are new, you have no idea what's happened in my life since 13 years

ago. It's phenomenal. I couldn't have sat down and made it up. I mean, it's not me. You

know, it's alcoholic synonymous. I've been sober since October the 5th, 1978, and I'm

still growing spiritually.

I think that's important because I was talking with Tom after one of the meetings this morning,

and I told him just a few weeks ago, I'd got lost in some lies that robbed me of my happiness,

and I started living my life based on those lies. Same old lies, just revisit it all over again,

you know, security, money, health, all the same old stuff, but it started to rob me of my happiness.

And I know I could pray about it, I could talk about it, I could do all this stuff,

but for me, when I get like that, and I can't talk it out anymore, I could get that paper and pen out,

and write that stuff down. There's something about writing that stuff down and going,

listen to this, Linda, I need about five minutes of your time. And I did this inventory with

this guy that I sponsor. He's been sober about five years less than me, and I asked him if he would

listen to the inventory, and he said, yeah, and I said, can you keep your mouth shut? And he said,

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