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Thanks Becky, my name's Dave, and I'm an alcoholic still.

So the second hour, I hope everybody's had a nice lunch.

The second hour, I'm basically going to ask myself questions and answers.

And the reason I'm going to do that is that I've done things like this before.

Quite often when you have the question and answer thing, people get embarrassed to ask a question in a group.

So they don't ask.

Or what they do is they get what question it is they want to ask and they end up sharing experience because you're in AA mode.

So they spend five minutes of so sharing around the question about asking the question.

So I think it can be much useful really.

If I just go through the common questions that have been asked over the years that have been a sponsor,

and maybe that answers some of the questions that people are unable to ask themselves.

And then at the end of the hour, we'll have a bit of hands in the air stuff.

I know at the end of the day, there's going to be a half an hour window for people to share back.

So I suppose in that sharing back time as well, if you want to, you can ask a question if you want to.

Or tell us about the kind of stuff that you do with people you work with.

So the first question I've written down is, how will I know when I'm ready to be a sponsor?

And it's an interesting question.

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