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Hi, I'm Michael, an alcoholic.

Hi, Michael.

I'm going to time myself because if I don't, I'll just never stop talking.

So forgive me as I set that up.

I've had a really great weekend.

I don't know if anybody else has, but it's been pretty wonderful.

I've gotten to know a lot of you guys in a way I never got to know you before.

And I got to see there's some guys here that I had judgments about in my mind.

My alcoholic mind told me that, you know, and I'm specifically not looking at anybody right now.

My alcoholic mind told me that, you know, these people are this way and that way.

And I came here and my mind was open when I got here, and I saw that those people that I thought

were this way or that way were, were so much deeper and so much more amazing than I imagined

them to be.

And so it's been a fantastic weekend.

So, uh, I'm supposed to talk about steps eight and nine. And at Randy's meeting,

the noon meeting at the spot, we recently did that. And we were all talking about eight

from the 12 and 12, and we were all talking about nine. And Randy made the comment, it's almost

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