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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day my name is bob i'm an alcoholic

from richmond indiana uh my day to sobriety is august 15th nineteen seventy 1975, when I walked into a meeting, and I've been invited to go to that meeting before.

He's out Santa Monica, California.

And Dennis T. had tried to get me to go a couple times before.

But this time I said, yes.

I was walking in circles in my apartment, kind of mumbling to myself,

and the refrigerator was singing to me.

And I don't know if I had that happen to them or not.

But somebody said, alcohol is the only liquid that sings.

And I was hallucinating.

I was drunk at my first meeting and have not had to have a drink of alcohol since because of God.

Not because of me, certainly.

I've tried to quit all my life since I was a teenager.

I tried to quit drinking forever.

I went to jail a lot of times.

I always went to just weekends generally, but I always said I'll quit forever, but it didn't work.

And that really worked for me, and I thank God for that.

So that's my qualification for being here.

I have several things to say before we get started

Before we start I like everybody in the room to have one of these

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