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brian oh good to be here um i guess what i'm going to talk about is um i'm just going to follow up and kind of clean up what these guys said.

The good news is I'm the baby of this group, so I know even less, and I'm less of an expert than both of them guys.

So all I'm going to share is my experience around some of what we talked about and tied in around unity and around really what, I think Myers could have been

a little bit more passionate. He's a little bit tame there, huh? It's, for me, when I hear Myers speak,

and it's the first time I've ever met Myers or Kip, and I've actually never heard him on tape,

so I apologize for that. So to hear I'm up here speak and I got goosebumps.

And whenever I hear someone speak passionately around alcoholics, anonymous, and speaking

the truth that I believe, I get passionate myself.

And also I got some good sleep last night, so that was good.

And everything that Meyer said is what I believe, everything that Kipp said is what I

believe that.

And, you know, for me, the unity of my experience around my home group where I started in Maine.

And what I learned real quick was that so we were so young in sobriety, we had limited old timers to rely on because we got sober in arizona

me and my wife both got taken through this process and we were awakened

spiritually

and we ended up in maine and rural maine at that so it was very limited population

and there was there was really no old timers

no one really

uh... that had been through the steps uh... that was talking when we were

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