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Thank you for inviting me to Geneva, thank you for inviting me here and I've got a couple

of friends with me as well.

So I'm not on my own in the city and the big bad city of Geneva.

And well done for getting up on Saturday morning and coming to this.

I'm an alcoholic and so it's amazing to me that I'm anywhere today, let alone Geneva.

I came into AA for the first time in the early 1990s and most of the people I met around

that time are not anywhere anywhere.

So the fact that I'm alive is amazing to me and alcoholism in my family, those of us

who are alcohol extended by young, my brother was in his twenties when alcoholism

killed him.

I'm in my 40s now, so I've got a good few years that I've been by all the sessions I have,

really.

And they serve very, very high proportion of alcohol, it's very drunk.

I don't know what proportion is technically, I'm not, here as a scientist or I'm not here

to report statistics, but I'm aware, I'm very aware that I was going to say lucky that

I'm alive.

I'm not sure how much luck has to do with it, but then again, I'm not in charge of the

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