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My name is Jim, I'm an alcoholic and I was a little nervous before I speak. Coming up

here I wasn't sure if I was going to go for the door or if I was going to end up up here.

So I'm up here. I can't keep my name, take on today. I want to thank Dustin and the

committee for asking us to come up and speak. It's certainly a privilege of you coming

and asking us to speak as a member of the Alcoholics Anonymous. Prior to me getting sober

people were not asking me to come and tell them what I thought or to share my experience

with them. It was quite different than that. I want to thank everybody that spoke so far

today. Both the paths did a great job talking a little bit about what alcoholics Anonymous

does in their life. They talked about recovery, talked about some of the different ways

so we can get that in our own life. Sarah talked about the importance of the unity inside

of alcoholics Anonymous. What I was asked to do today is to talk about service. I wasn't

exactly sure how to go about doing those things. I thought about it a lot and I talked

a little bit about it with my wife and then I thought some more about it. Then I walked

in today and I sat down in the back of the room and 5-10 minutes passed by and I'm

sitting in the back of the room and this guy walks in and I look over and I go, I know

that guy. The reason that I knew that guy is I knew that guy in a different life. I knew

that guy when I was an active drunk and he was an active drunk. The guy that walked in and

came and sat down next to me in whom I've had a chance to talk to you today is a different

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