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This is pretty darn cool. You know, I'm John C. Grateful we covered alcoholics.

My sobriety day is 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's 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.

Because we could easily come in here and then be 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 have paperwork, and I apologize, we didn't print more. But let me read

what I put that as like our mission statement here, and it says

to provide the newcomer with the facts about alcoholism and ultimately the program of recovery

as detailed in the book Alcoholics Anonymous, to become effective members of our home group

and as a result, effective members of society, is the message that I carry improving my effectiveness and the effectiveness of my group.

And that, in a nutshell, is kind of why we're here.

That's kind of what that's why this group was formed.

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