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Hi, my name is Charlie, I'm an alcoholic.

I'm a alcoholic.

And I would like to thank Bob and the committee for inviting me to be here among a lot of people who have been friends for a long time and who are people I've respected and looked up to for a lot of years.

And like Scott, I'm really, uh, really don't belong.

And all, uh, uh, Bob told me my subject this morning is to be sex and fear, which are the building blocks

for any AA relationship.

I have to tell you something I have pushed this topic away from my head ever since Bob asked me to speak here.

I don't like to think about sex and I don't like to think about fear.

And I don't like to think about it. It's not that I don't like to think about sex because I do pretty much every eight minutes.

That rolls around in my head.

I don't need to think about fear

because it's always sitting on my shoulders.

And, but I think it's better.

It's probably more honest for me to just muddle through this and put you through it too.

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