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I'm Bob B. I'm an alcoholic.

Would you join me after a moment of silence

in an opening prayer I like to use.

Lord, help me to set aside everything I think I know about you,

everything I think I know about myself,

everything I think I know about others, and everything I think I know about my own recovery

for a new experience in you, Lord, a new experience in myself, a new experience in my fellows,

and a much-needed new experience in my own recovery. Amen.

What we're going to try to, what I'm going to try to do, and I'm not an expert on the big book or the steps or anything like that. What I am is a guy who throughout the early 70s came in

and out of Alcoholics Anonymous

and relapsed over and over and over again.

And I tried to stay sober on the fellowship.

And I couldn't understand what was wrong,

why I kept going back to it until I eventually in

1978 came into Alcoholics Anonymous the last time and I had some people that were put

in my path that showed me how to put the process in this book into my life and and like everything in Alcoholics Anonymous,

I am just basically going to share with you my experience with that.

And I hope that it might be useful.

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