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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hi everybody my name sandy bick and i'm an

alcoholic thank you for inviting me bob and uh all the rest of you i'm impressed with this group

we started one in tamp Tampa about two years ago.

They just didn't have enough speaker meetings.

And we tried to maintain this same kind of energy level.

And Bob spoke there.

And it's something that was really needed.

And I can tell from the turnout here that this is something that's really appreciated,

where you get the, something you just look forward to, and you know it's going to be a great evening.

And I can feel that here.

It's just a wonderful group.

My sobriety date is December 7, 1964.

And I've had the same sponsor from the day I came into A.A. until today.

So that's a pretty good break when you both stay alive that long. And I just, you know, I'm not close to Bill.

He's up in Virginia and I moved down to Tampa, but we stay in touch.

And I have a lot of great memories.

Sponsors are so important.

They just are the great teachers and the great examples.

And so both being sponsored and then sponsoring somebody is, to me,

the most crucial element of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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