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My name is Mary, I'm an alcoholic.

I'm a great.

And I want to express my gratitude for the warm welcome I've received here, especially when I walked into the room and saw a lot of people that I've known that I've met on the road of Happy Destiny.

Sandy over here is an old friend of mine

from many years ago.

We used to chase around crazy together.

And I really want to thank Frank also for picking me up at the

airport and taking me to the White House. I feel very special I'll tell you. But I'm not here to tell you about all these things. I'm here to talk about my drinking.

And I can wrap up my whole drinking career by quoting when the cat said when he got through making love to the skunk.

He said, I didn't get all I wanted, but I got all I could stand. Oh, uh-huh. There must be some recognition here.

Anyway, I'll start out by saying that I knew when I was a child that I was going to be the greatest

dancer in the world and I was given ballet lessons and dancing and tap and acrobatic and all

it said I lived in that dream world and the day after I graduated from high school in Salt Lake

City at the age of 16 I joined what was then known as the road show or the end of vaudeville and when we were traveling around, we traveled in caravans in cars.

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