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Good evening, everybody.

My name is Lorna, and I'm an alcoholic.

And I'm thrilled at last to be up here.

Anyway, I want to thank you so much.

I've had such a warm, warm welcome.

And I love, you know, I'm not familiar with this room,

but I already love this room.

And the testament is last night were very powerful,

and one can feel when one comes in here the suffering and the joy and the recovery

that's in these four walls. And it's very powerful, and I'm very grateful that you've asked me to come here

and be your speaker this evening. And before I forget my manners, I want to also thank the

committee for choosing me and for Melissa, for arranging this and for Melissa for giving Emily the task of

being my hostess this today. We've had a great time. We have a huge age difference between us and yet

she was a dear friend for me and it's terrific.

We were discovering that when she was born, I was already,

sober, but I, it was like stunning.

You know, I was telling her that I remember being in a meeting once

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