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First of all, I want to thank Sarah and Alex

for taking such good care of me and getting me here and making sure

I'm comfortable while I'm here and I want to thank you both personally. I want to thank all of the people, the hosts, the people on whatever committees it is, that put this thing together.

And I mean that for all of us.

I'm not, I am speaking just for me,

but not just for making it possible for me.

But anybody that had anything to do with putting Ticke Paul together

and making it possible for all of us, I want to thank you and it means a lot to me.

And there's something else I want to say. I have to say it.

That most of the time, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, I'll tell you that it's, I'm real grateful to be sober.

And that's one of the most important facts of my life.

And right now, it's a little different and I'm real grateful for it and that is

that I'm grateful we're sober all of us and that means a lot to me, man. It does. I'm real grateful for that, man, because I don't believe

there would be much me without us. And I mean that my sobriety date is December 9 of 2001 that's the most important date of my life, man, and I probably am not going to talk much of what I will tell you what I was like in my drinking, man.

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