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So I was introduced to the fellowship back in 1985

when I wasn't in alcohol.

I was 25 years old I knew something was wrong everybody

knew something was wrong with me but I didn't know I was the last one to find

out I was the last one to find out. So after the reading that John did this morning, I want to turn to page 5, 1 in a big book because this would be like this has come up my story because it's all going to relate and tie in.

And on page 551, I think the one,

to the third paragraph down,

it states the chapter is freedom from bondage, right?

And it says this resentment was against my mother

and it was 25 years old. It had I had found it I had fed it I had found it and

nurtured it as one might a delicate child and it had become as much a part of me as my breathing.

It had provided me with excuses for my lack of education, my marital status are failures, personal failures, inadequacy, and of course my alcoholism.

Now, I'm going to share a little something with you and I don't mean to be provocative or

stimulate anyone else's side issues.

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