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Let's chat about these war stories, huh?

Let's chat about the reason that we can't keep the young adults in our fellowship.

Let's chat about why so many women are leaving this fellowship.

Who do you think you are with those war stories?

I'll go back to Bill's story.

I've been thrown under the bus so many times of this.

People come up after I talk and it's just the, you just, I just see it on their faces.

They're coming up.

I know, I know.

You don't have to say it.

Our stories are all we have because that's what we're taught.

Our stories are all we have.

Folks, let me tell you something.

I didn't fly all this way up here 12 hours in a airport yesterday so I could come up here, 12 hours in a airport yesterday, so I could come up here and share a stupid war

story with you. Now, I'm going to tell you something. I ate out of the dumpsters in Houston,

Texas, and I've done some stuff on a street that I wouldn't talk to about in mixed company.

I've done some crazy, stupid, stupid things. You're with me? But I'm not up here to talk to you

about that. I'm up here to talk to you about my life today in sobriety

and how absolutely as cool it is to wake up and have that obsession gone. And if we have more people

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