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

a pleasure to be a service in alcoholics and ornaments 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 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 notice, I realized that when you hear that night 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 and anybody that

knows me in alcoholics and ornaments knows that I take my responsibility as a fellow member

exceptionally seriously and when I first heard the AA pledge when anyone reaches out

in 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, a cover

group that I fast, that is only immersed in the big book of alcoholics and ornaments

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