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Hi everybody, my name is Rob, I'm alcoholic and by the grace of God the fellowship of

alcoholic synonymous, excellent sponsorship, lots and lots of service work, but mostly because

of the program of recovery that I found in this book, I've not found it necessary to take a drink

or anything that affects me from the neck up since the 7th of July 1988. If for that I'm extremely

grateful. And as I shared last night, you know that may not impress you, but I can assure you that

impresses my family, my friends in the California Highway Patrol. I can assure you right now.

And thank you to Randy and to the group for inviting me back out here. It's been a couple

years since I've been to Winter Garden and it's always an honor and a privilege for me to do

anything with this life-saving, life-giving, life-changing program. And it doesn't matter to me whether

it's a large group or a small group, anywhere that there are alcoholics that want to hear the

message of recovery. You know, I'm willing to go and I'm willing to talk about my experience and

what I'm really going to try to do today is share my experience and the struggles that I made in

the early 80s to get sober over and over and over in the fellowship of alcoholic synonymous.

And as a result of that, I almost died a couple of times and I was finally introduced to the

program of recovery that's in this stupid book that I never read. And somehow by a series of

you know, coincidences that happened in my life, I was able to get a sponsor, I was able to work

the 12 steps under his guidance and the compulsion and drink was removed and as you'll hear in my

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