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This is pretty darn cool, you know.

I'm John.

We're covered out the hall.

It's my sobriety day to September 4 1999 and for that I am very very grateful and I

want to thank each and every one of you before we get started just thank you for being

here.

And this is pretty impressive, a beautiful Sunday and everybody here, that's cool.

And I think this exceeded my expectations and I know Ed was talking about the same

thing.

And so don't get a big head about it but you can pat yourself on the behind and that's

really cool.

If we could have easily come in here in the big 25 of you, still would have been great.

But it's glad that we're all here and what we're doing, I mean it's a responsible sponsorship,

that's what we're going to talk about today.

And you know those of you who have paperwork and I apologize we didn't print more but

let me read what I put as our mission statement here and it says to provide the newcomer with

the facts about alcoholism and ultimately the program of recovery is detailed in the

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