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My name is Howard, I am an aqua, my guys, I look around here and I see so many friends,

old friends, new friends, dear friends, friends, I just catch, you know, I just met at Amelia

Island or here, my friend Dean and my other friend Dean from New York, you showed up.

And so many other members of our big book comes alive, cadre of lost souls from the Sunday

meeting who are here, I love to see you guys and of course love my life, Kathy is here,

somewhere in the Hollywood squares for you guys, for me she's right up front.

But thank you all for being here and also congratulations to the celebrants, those of

you who were, I think Jimmy was 46 days, Janice was 30 some odd days, the rest of you

if I missed the name, I apologize, congratulations to you folks, you truly are the most important

people here as far as I'm concerned.

As was suggested, it might be helpful as we do this, if you had your book handy and

a highlighter and a pen, it just might simplify things, I'm just going to start out by kind

of explaining what this is about, you see I think if you go to enough meetings, you're

going to hear a great many things and if you've been coming around for a while, you may

be thinking hey, where the hell did they get that from?

That is not in the big book and we've just hear so many things repeated meetings that

cannot, cannot in any way be reconciled with the program that's outlined in the big book

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