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Hi everyone, my name is Marion Bies

and I'm an alcoholic.

Thank you for having me and I'm going to get the perfunctory thank you's out of the way.

So I don't know who Becky is, is Becky here?

Hi Becky, Becky called and invited me up here tonight, so thank you Becky.

And Jack, the treasurer. Okay you made all of my

arrangements and flights and hotels so thank you and I want to think my host Mark

he came in and picked me up Thursday about one in the afternoon and

I don't know Mark so I said well what do you look like and he said a middle-aged white guy and I'm

like that's not going to be hard to find in Seattle, right?

So when I got off the plane, I turned on my Mandar.

And ladies, you know what that is.

You go into the bar, you turn what that is.

You go into the bar, you turn on the man radar,

and you look for the most desperate one in the room.

And I'm not saying that Mark is desperate,

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