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Paulic from Los Angeles and my sobriety day is February 8, 1972 and I am thrilled to

be here and thank you, Jerry, for the invitation and thank you for your friendship.

It has meant a lot to me over the years to talk to somebody on the other side of the country

and see how you do it there.

I think that you are probably a little bit more enthusiastic than we are and that's

pretty wonderful.

I am enthusiastic about this program because it's kept me safe and sane and no safe and

sober, I would say, for close to 50 years, if I live to February 8, that will be half

a century of sobriety and that it tests to really huge power and it's available to us.

Our primary purpose really is to carry this message to other alcoholics and to practice

these principles and all our affairs and if we do that, if we just simply do that as

our uppermost goal, then good things seem to happen.

I like your name, the primary purpose group and it just gets us back to the basics.

I just wandered into this fellowship many years ago after quite a few years of doubting that

I had a problem with alcohol and that seems to be the story of many of us, of course.

A lot of it is related to this whole thing, this mysterious thing in our program which

is coming to believe in and having a relationship with the higher power and I've become convinced

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