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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day thank you very much my name is jim

an alcoholic and i'm a satisfied customer of alcoholics anonymous very happy to be sober i got sober on

august 8th of 1980.

I was 17 years old and I never found it necessary to go back out and prove what I already

knew.

And that was that I was an alcoholic of the hopeless variety.

So I'm very pleased to be here today.

And it's been a wonderful conference and, you know, I want to thank the Waki

Pa Committee for asking me to come on out here and God saw fit to make things happen in my

life that made it easy to be here. So thanks again, really. And, you know, a lot of this

wouldn't be possible because, you know, mainstream A.A. doesn't really look too well upon books that aren't published by A.A.

Fortunately, the young people in A.A. will have an open mind that some of the older people don't.

So I'm grateful to be here and started with my friend Jay back there, who invited me to

see the first Uri-Pah in Stockholm in 2010 to present on this just like I am doing today.

And again, at Dublin, and I hope I get to see all of you at Copenhagen for the third Uri-Pas.

It's really worth the trip really is so thanks

again so um you know i i came to o'clock anonymous uh oh about three weeks before i went away to

college and uh one of the books that was handed me me to me, was the big book.

And most of you are familiar.

I'm actually gratified to hear that the big book is referenced so many times in this conference.

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