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Hi everybody, my name's Chris, I'm an alcoholic.

It's good to be here tonight, it's good to be the filler in between Peter

Rims 12-step presentation. I'm certainly enjoying what he's bringing to the group here.

It was really a good thing that we were able to grab him

and he was able to come down here and share his experience with us.

I was thinking about what, you know know what do I want to talk about tonight because I don't want to I don't I kind of don't want to interfere with the flow of his what he's trying to do.

And I thought, I thought what would be the most important thing I could talk about.

And I was thinking about having a balanced program, having a balanced 12-step recovery experience.

I do a lot of speaking for rehab, treatment facilities. I speak sometimes for colleges,

Rutgers School of Health. for colleges.

Rutgers School of Alcohol Studies.

Fairly Dickinson has a program where they're, where they graduate master's degree, social workers, and they have alcoholism classes, which every once in a while I get to come in and I'm the show and tell for the the alcohol classes but I've kept busy in in the

treatment facilities environment and I've kept busy and alcoholics anonymous going to beginners

meetings and going to meetings where you're going to find people coming in and

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