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Tom, I'm an alcoholic.

Hey, Tom.

A member of the primary purpose group of A.A. in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

And I really, I've thoroughly enjoyed that thing today. If you haven't seen

the falls, I imagine most everybody a year's seen them. But man, that's something else. That is

really something else. That's just spectacular beauty. And I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Probably won't get a chance to do much more of that, but that that was worth it for the time.

And good to see a lot of old friends.

This is almost like a family reunion for me with a lot of people in this room, and good to be here.

So I'll be looking forward to the weekend.

My purpose here is to be of service. That's what I want

to do. That's the reason I travel. That's the reason I respond to requests to do stuff, is that I want to be of service.

And so I'm here to be as a part of this retreat to the greatest extent that I can.

I want to be not only here physically, but I want to be here mentally and spiritually so that I'm a part of what's going on.

Anybody that wants to hang out or talk or just visit, be my guest.

I would, uh, I would count that a privilege.

So sometimes it's safe to talk to somebody who's going to fly away Sunday.

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