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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day my name is robin and i am powerless

powerless power powerless over alcohol.

And if you didn't hear it the first time around, I am powerless.

I'm very grateful to be here. I've never gotten in this neck of the woods before, and it's good to be here.

I usually get sent to places where I've had some sort of past history associated.

You know, he's got a caustic sense of humor, you know.

And, you know, it came of neat, though, to be able to go to a totally new place and realize that I don't have to make amends for anything other than the fact that I'm there,

you know.

But that usually comes out in a while, so we don't worry about that.

Robin took his first drink when he was 14,

his last drink when he was 45.

And it was downhill all the way, you know.

What was it like?

I'm going to tell you what it was like.

It was 31 years of self-destructive, self-will-run riot.

Look at them.

They don't even know what I'm talking about.

Sitting there like little angels,

wide-eyed and bushy-tails.

So clean they squeeze.

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