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My name's Rowan, I'm an alpha-holy.

Through the grace of God and the fellowship of acaholics anonymous, I haven't found the

necessary take a drink of acahol since, obviously, 21st.

I teach 75 for this I am grateful, I've been crying like a baby all morning long, I want

to tell you, I'm just full with a lot of love in my heart and I've been looking forward

to this for a long time since December of this year and I've gave this talk probably

about 50 times and, each time I give it it seems like it got a little bit better to me.

But that was a pride and ego that was getting in there and I really truly hope that I can

share with you from my heart of what I have experienced in my life in the last 15

years, in my expectation of what's in store for me in the future, because I've read the

big book and I've studied it and I've listened to what it's got to say and in the 12 and 12

it talks about us in there in the 12th step of the book that they want for us to live

joyous and happy and free and have emotional sobriety and that's what I've been trying

to obtain since I came in this program the second time and through a God of my understanding

and staying close with the people here and in the fellowship, I have no fear of what

the future has in store for me, I've gone back and looking at the people that have went

before me and the people that are here today and I'm in good company and I like that and

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