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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hi everybody um to those of you who asked me

if i were going to be on this panel and i said no i wasn't lying i didn't know it but like everything else I never said

oh like Donna just said I never said no to a drink so I better never say no to AIA

you know I've always insisted on wanting somebody sober longer than I at the meetings I attend, but this is ridiculous.

Gee. I'm the newest kid on the block here.

That's pretty neat.

I am an alcoholic, though. That's pretty neat.

I am an alcoholic, though.

That's why I'm here through God's grace.

A member of alcoholics. I mean, my home group is the Mountain Group

that meets at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale

on Sundays at 10.

And the name is Tommy.

Hi.

I do have to give Cheshire, Connecticut credit for my first 13 years in the fellowship,

though, because I didn't move here to Florida until 1974.

How do you express all of your gratitude within a 10-minute period?

I think it's important that the only way I can do it is to thank you who are here

because it is through people that the vehicle or the grace of God comes.

I always say that I am here through God's grace and cookie sheets

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