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I wanted to tell you that I've been sober this time since July 15th 1997.

That I have a home group. It's a beautiful big book group and beauty.

Texas or Buddha, whichever you prefer.

And I'm just so glad to be here. Thank you.

I want to talk a little bit about what I was like.

And I'm the kind of guy that is always thinking about me.

Me, me, me. I've heard somebody describe it as my eyes are too close.

What about I?

So I grew up in this family that tried to instill some values in me and some principles about relationships.

That I got from watching what they did and what I got wasn't very good.

But I got, I had some really good parents that did teach me about working hard, having some work ethics.

And to show up, shoot up to do what I needed to do.

My name is James Cecil Ruby, the third. I hated that. I hated growing up with that.

I didn't know what to do with it.

All the men in my family built highways and my grandparents need one of my grandfather's ever finished school.

But we're self made, self taught.

I'd watch my father's father and the way that he did things was he ran things. He ran everything.

And my dad tried to do the same thing and I did too.

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