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Good evening. Welcome to North Oakland speaker meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. My name's

I'm an alcoholic tonight's secretary. Hi, Michael.

Please turn off your cell phones. Please help me open the meeting with a moment of silence, followed by the serenity prayer.

God.

God, grant me this serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

the courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdoms know the difference.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women

who share their experience, strength, and hope of each other

that they may solve their common problems,

help others to recover from alcoholism.

The only requirement for membership with desire to stop drinking.

There are no dues nor fees for any membership. we are self-supported to our own contributions.

A.A. is not allied with any sect, nomination, politics, organization, or institution.

There's no wish to engage in any controversy.

Neither endorses nor opposes any causes.

Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. All right, this is

speaker meeting. I will speak for 10 minutes and then turn

the meeting over to our main speaker. Dragging will share her experience,

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