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I'm Rodney, and I'm an alcoholic.

And I'd like to welcome everybody to the third annual Columbia River Young People's Roundup.

Those of you just got here,

those of you who are just waking up,

and this is going to be the first meeting today,

and the title of the meeting is Upon Awakening.

It's really good to be here.'s it's uh it's fun to be up here too um this can't be any worse than the last couple days um Thursday and Friday I had to

give presentations to junior high school students, seventh graders.

And it was really scary.

I didn't know what I was doing.

And my partner and I were having to try and give them some information

that maybe would help them make a wise choice when they decided

whether they were going to drink or not drink.

And, you know, it was a challenge, and it scared me because I've done very little speaking

except in a-A meetings.

But it came through all right.

And what I did was I just turned it over to God.

You know, and I recognize and realize that by myself, I'm helpless.

I can't do anything without God.

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