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Good morning, I'm from Austin, Texas, and this is Julie from Dallas, Texas.

If we didn't get to meet you tonight, our last night, excuse me, welcome.

We're absolutely honored and delighted to be here, and really kind of taken a back by the amount of effort and engagement,

and just wow, what you guys have done to bring us out here. We're absolutely honored.

What we're going to do, the driving force of this workshop is called sober for keeps.

So what we're looking at is what does it really look like for me to get set on a path that ensures long-term permanent sobriety?

So that's going to be the goal, and that's what we're going to keep coming back to.

So we're going to take you through the book, we're going to take you through all 12 steps,

we're going to look at from the standpoint of going through the work, and then also what it looks like to take other people through the work.

Because that's kind of the question. If you want to stay sober for good and for all, you need to learn how to sponsor.

You need to learn how to carry the message, because that in and of itself is what takes you to people picking up 15, 20, 25,

50 years of sobriety and having healthy sobriety, good sobriety.

So this is what we're going to do. So everybody's got a book, right? I'm going to make a big assumption, and assume everybody's got a book.

If you'll turn in your book to the title page to the Alcoholics Anonymous,

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