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Oh, I'm Bob.

And I'm real glad to be here doing this thing.

It's funny I was saying over here,

listening to her talk about my book,

and I got embarrassed.

It's amazing how we get embarrassed by things

we do there.

For the other years, you're an in 12-step recovery.

This meeting tonight has nothing to do with it.

You know, so if you're waiting for somebody to read something or someone to yell at somebody

or someone to accuse someone of crying of self-pity it's not going to happen tonight.

What am I talking about tonight is co-dependency.

People might also expect me to talk about food, seeing as how we're doing this for eating disorder's house.

But there's at the back of all these issues, drug addiction, alcohol addiction,

food addiction, eating disorder, whatever label you want to put on it, are some

core issues.

And I think one of the things that I'm discovering as I go work keep working on this stuff in order just to survive and have some kind of a life is that these issues go back to when I was real small and it's very possible that it's these very issues of being raised in an alcoholic or a dysfunctional family.

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