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My name is Scott an alcoholic.

I can't thank you enough for inviting me down.

I'm just having a great time.

I feel, and this is, you know, drinking is the most intimate experience I've ever had.

It was so intimate and so important to me that nothing could stop me. I think that when Alcoholics

Anonymous actually gets involved in actually stopping someone from drinking, it's beyond description.

For those of us who know what it's like to not be able to stop drinking, even if you want to,

people who understand that understand it, that in the middle of the night, in between breaths,

no matter what I've told you, no matter how important it is for me

to not drink, when I act without sense, without explanation, or without reason, and I drink

again, and nothing, nothing interrupts that process. For this to interrupt that process is

unbelievable. So here, you know, we have a bunch of guys hanging out with their sponsor and hanging

out with one another and making another demonstration of the kind of relationship that's

necessary to facilitate this incredible thing that, in my case, nothing else achieved.

Not the love and dedication of children who adored me,

of a wife who loved me, a family that was dedicated to me, incredible opportunities,

as a business person, as a person in my community who had the respect and attention of the people

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