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My name is Mags and I'm an alcoholic and yeah, it's a pleasure to be here and always a pleasure

to be of service and Alcoholics Anonymous and thank you Valerie so much,

especially today for asking me to be here. I genuinely don't know what I'm going to talk about

simply because it's been a bit of a hectic weekend and I've kind of just sat here and kind of tuned in to a lot of what has just

taken place in the meeting. The first thing to note is I've realized that when you hear that

now recording thing it just sends fear right through my body because it's like this is about

to happen. But thank God I have that beautiful set-aside

prayer and I can ask God to remove that in order to have a new experience with him as I try

to carry this message to help somebody in the room. And Valerie, thank you for giving me the topic

of being responsible.

Anybody that knows me in Alcoholics and Arms

knows that I take my responsibility as a fellow member

exceptionally seriously. And when I first heard the AA pledge, when anyone reaches out the

hand for help, I am responsible. And I didn't actually know what that meant when I first came

into the rooms. But thankfully, I've been brought up in a home group, Recovery group, Belfast, that is only immersed in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous, to which our fellowship is named after.

And from the get-go, I was taught, literally taught by the people in that group and my sponsor the importance of my responsibility

in always helping to still suffer an alcoholic inside and outside the rooms and also being

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