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they will be sharing their experience with steps four five six and seven which are number four

made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Number five, admitted to God to ourselves and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.

Six, we're entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

And seven humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.

With that, I turn it over to Duncan.

Hey, everybody. My name is Duncan, and I'm an alcoholic. And my sobriety date is August 25, 2008. My home

group's Blue Friday Night Speakers meeting. I have a sponsor. I sponsor other guys. I've been

to the 12 steps. I have a God of my understanding. And as a result of those things, I can be happy and sober when I choose to be.

And I liked what Emily was talking about because I was expecting to come in to Alcoholics Anonymous and be fairly miserable, but just less miserable.

And in thinking a little bit about kind of four through seven over the past several

months since Chandler asked me to speak, you know, I really started to get in touch with

how incredible it is that I'm eligible to be happy and sober by virtue of

these like counterintuitive things.

Like I don't, on my own power, I don't go from I'm really mad at you to it must be rooted

in fear.

I should ask for God's help.

You know, like that is really counterintuitive, and I promise you I never would have

come up with that on my own.

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