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Good afternoon, friends. My name's Truman Alcoholic.

Very nice to be here. I'm living in Western Australia at present. I've been living there for 10 years.

But I've found a in England. Founder in Liverpool, in England, in 1971, when I'd reached my bottom.

I had bottom, very, very hard.

I spent seven years down now. You wonder why the

policeman in London have good polisher in her boots, I can tell you. It was kicking me up the

backside and move me on from the seats where I slept, and put various places in the parks where I

slept. I've done those things. A has given me back my life today to do with it I want

I choose to stay sober

Each morning of my life

I get out of bed

And I make a decision

A decision that I will not

Pick up the first drink For that course of that day, the day I live in.

I'm honoured to be here at this convention.

It's one of the biggest meetings I've spoken in front of.

I have travel of England, Scotland and Wells, and myself for sobriety, my venture to forgets

the book sober, attending meetings in these countries.

After 16 months of sobriety and England, I approached my wife wife sitting here with me today and asked her if she started a new life

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