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Okay, I am Mitchell Clinton, and I am a recovered alcoholic.

Hi, Joe.

How is everybody doing today and yesterday, and other than the little, I see everybody's wearing the winter coats and...

All right.

You know, one of the things, you know, talking about the history of A.A. a for me really begins with kind of telling

part of my story and and how i got interested in the history and what what you know what

what led me to to look about the history and read about it and try and understand it um to

kind of like um it was funny, Bill just asked me, like, you know,

how long am I going to be speaking for?

And there was a line that my sponsor always gave once they said, you know, you know, like,

you know, how long are you going to be speaking, you know, what are you going to be speaking about and what is, oh, about two, three hours.

And I said, no, no, I can't do that. He could have, but I definitely can't.

I kind of like, you know, I guess I became an alcoholic somewhere between the age of 13 and 14.

I had people over at my parents' apartment, and we were having a party, and I kind of broke into their booze supply, and I took a sip.

I didn't like it at all.

I couldn't stand it.

It had burned.

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