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I'm Stewart, I'm an alcoholic.

And welcome to Alcoholics Anonymous.

There's a lot of open seats in the front,

so the people that had said they were new,

please come up and have a seat and join Alcoholics Anonymous because that's what I had to do.

You know, I was introduced Alcoholics Anonymous in 1984 by way of the family.

You know, and I sat in a meeting like this with a wristband on and people had

39 years, 20 years, 10 years, five years.

And I said, these people need to get a life.

I got it made, but yet I'm living at McDonald's

Senate. But they need to get a life. living at McDonald's Center.

But they need to get a life.

And I found out 30 years later, when I got sober at 48 that they had the life all along and I realized

I wanted that life.

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