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My name's just Dave and I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, Dave.

Just Dave's. There's no other Dave's in AA, is it? Dave K for anybody taking notes or keeping track.

You know, I like to congratulate the celebrants first of all.

You know, one of the things I always love about celebration is it's a sign of hope. It's that small sign of hope

of somebody coming in and seeing that it is actually possible. Even though we don't have an

indication of what's possible or what we have to do to reach that goal.

We see somebody with a year.

I know with me coming in, I couldn't get more than 30 days in five years.

30 days, and I hear people saying, have a year my first reaction is you're

lying yeah you look like crap you're drinking every day aren't you honestly, I went to a meeting and they gave me a coffee commitment.

And this is how insane, you know, it is, but they gave me a coffee commitment and they said if you make coffee you'll get 90 days.

This person had the coffee commitment before you and is celebrating 90 days.

And I looked at him and I thought you're lying. There's no way you have 90 days because I can't get 90 days. But I did take the coffee commitment and I would make coffee every Wednesday. I would drink the entire week before but if something was bringing me back to that meeting to make the coffee.

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