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Thank you very much. My name is Russell and I'm an alcoholic. Nick, thank you very much

for inviting me to participate in this wonderful meeting. Forgive me for leaving my post for

a moment to use the laboratory. Thank you, Brendan, and thank you to Lena for your

shares. How, like an allen on, to finish early to afford more time to an alcoholic. Perfect.

Thank you very much. Nick, you look lovely. I hope that the court goes well this afternoon.

I assume that's what you're offering a tie for. Good luck. I have a photo book at you.

Not the big book I'm at. I'm so grateful to be a member of this scholarship. I'm very

grateful to be sharing at your convention there in the Canary Islands. I wish I was there

physically. I've got like many people I suspect on this convention. I'm in the UK, and

it's kind of cold, but as the great Nick, the ferret, said to me just yesterday, because

of this program, we can bring our attention to the things that we are able to do, not

the things that we are not able to do. Nick, the ferret there, 45 years in, still dispatching,

wisdom almost, almost automatically. Today's reading from the 24 hours a day book from Hazard

and publishing. I have been digital form, you know, says a drinking life. This is today

January the 30th. Drinking life isn't a happy life. Drinking cuts you off from other

people and from God. One of the worst things about drinking is the loneliness. One of the

best things about AA is a fellowship. Drinking cuts you off from other people. At least

from the people we really matter to you. Your family, your co-workers and your real

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