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Introduce Israel who has come to share

on the topic of redemption. So over to you and we'll just unmute you there.

There we go. Can you unmute? Yes, thank you, Kat. Thank you very much. Thank you for your service. Good to see you again.

Cat and I was reminded met in Lithuania at the European Young People's

Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous was two summers ago, right?

There was no conference this past summer, but there will be next summer in Warsaw, we hope.

So put it on your calendar. What better thing to do than go to Warsaw

for a conference of alcohol experiments. Thank you Gordon for inviting me also.

Before I get started, I just want to thank

Amanda for greeting and Rob for reading.

That was a little bit of Dr Bob's nightmare and I think it speaks to

redemption and it speaks to a lot of stuff that I'll try and get back to it towards I want to introduce

myself I want to attempt to convince you that I'm an alcoholic, that you haven't wasted an hour of

half of your life by coming here tonight. So I'll start at the beginning. My name is Israel an alcoholic and thank you all and thanks to those

of you who I sponsor are sponsored by people I sponsor people I sponsor or share a home group with or

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