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Hi everybody, my name is Sandy Bich and I'm an alcoholic.

How you all doing?

Check my watch. I guess people know that my suitcase didn't get here and that's

why I'm casual tonight. I come came to AA in Pearl Harbor Day in 1964 and I did all my flying in the

Marine Corps in the 50s and 60s.

And I've seen a lot of changes in AA since I came in.

And I suppose obviously one of them is that the young people are in.

The average age was quite a bit older, and that's a really wonderful thing.

The other thing I've seen is the disappearance of speaker meetings.

When I got sober, there was nine speaker meetings for every discussion meeting and you couldn't go to a

discussion meeting until you had three months and you weren't allowed to talk till

your sponsor said you could say something. So it was a program of listening.

And that really is the heart of it, is listening.

And being able to hear your sponsor instead of yourself,

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