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In four chunks, we're going to go through the steps, have four people talk about a couple

steps each, and we're going to start with Jeff.

Who's going to do one, two, and three?

Yeah, Jeff. Thank you with Jeff. Who's going to do one, two, and three. Yeah, Jeff.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Yeah, we figured it would be a little less boring having four people talk for 15 minutes each

than to have one long person talk for an hour.

So chances out would have been a home group member, which you've probably already heard already anyway so my name is Jeff Malk this is my home group I love

this group I showed up here I got sober on August 29th 2007 and so it was a

Thursday I believe I'm not here and um and uh so i show up on

thursday i believe it was a thursday and um by saturday i met this guy became my sponsor

and um basically i met him over when they had this meeting similar to what we're

doing tonight over at the new jerusalem church over there which was kind of spin off of this

meeting and um he kind of like basically in so many words you know i told him that i'd be excited

to come around a for quite some time he kind of was, I asked him for help in so many words, and he kind of was like, well, so how long have you been coming around to A.A.?

And I was like, well, you know, since 2001. It was then 2007. He asked me that question. I asked a lot of guys now that I meet Ney whether they're here

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