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Thanks, Becky. I'm Dave still an alcoholic.

So what we're going to do next is I'm just going to talk to you through what happens from the point where somebody asks me

to be their sponsor to finishing the bookwork really.

So quite often the way it works.

I'm going to use Alfa book as well.

I've got it out this morning and and all the pages were falling out,

I didn't have time to stick them back in.

Because it's a well-used book.

So the pages in my book are well-used,

and they're kind of all stuck in the tape and stuff like that.

Maybe that's something about my attachment to that particular book, I guess.

So I've got Al's book.

Thanks, Al.

I thought you'd let go on that resentment about the old book.

Yeah.

So you might be at a meeting or, you know, maybe after the meeting or standing outside the meeting or, you know, in the detox unit or, you know, you just answer the phone call from somebody.

And quite often they might dither around the question.

So, you know, you find folks ask how you are, you know, do you go to the football, how was that, how's the wife.

And like, you know, when you've been around them while you know what it is, they really want to ask you.

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