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Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. It's wonderful to be a part of this. Thank you for letting me be a part of this.

It's nice to see everybody.

I had to think long and hard about this. I was invited to participate in this.

It's made me very excited and more excited than I should be, but it's also made me feel guilty and weird.

I'm going to tell you a story now and I'll try to move this along as quickly as I can.

In 2017, my wife and I are invited to the JFK Librarian Boston and it's for the Profiles and Courage Award.

I was runner up. Thank you.

It's a big deal. You got to wear a tuxedo and I'm telling you, I looked great.

My wife told me I was a gown. So now we go in and at the table, holy goodness, I'm sitting next to Michelle Obama.

She is wearing one of these gowns that I clumsily described. It's a big evening and there's a lot of up and down.

Somebody comes out and you get up. You sit down. You get up. You sit down. You sit down.

About two or three of these, somebody comes out and I realize that when we stand, I've got my left foot here.

That's right. I've got my foot under gown.

So I think, well, my evening's ruined. Somebody else comes out and I two or three times later.

Standing up and there I am all night long, I've been standing on Michelle Obama's gown.

And I can't help it. I can't stop it. Something has gone wrong neurologically.

Okay, so now it's time to go. I'm standing there. I look down. Oh my God, I'm still standing on the woman's dress.

So she now makes a move to exit and is tugged. And I quickly take my foot off the dress and she says, you know, all night long, my dress has been catching on something.

And I say, yeah, I think it's your chair.

I feel much better. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

It's, I'm going to do this now and I'm going to do this quite simply, but this is all I can think of.

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