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The question is, who gives a hoot? What kind of alcoholic we are? Why should we have to fit into

any particular category?

Excellent question.

Seconded by this woman over here.

Yes.

And I agree with you.

You know, all that stuff is in the beginning, I think, is people could say,

well, I identify with that or identify with that a little bit or identify with that. And it just allows you to move on. You know, you'll hear people in

meeting say, hi, my name's, you know, Bob, I'm a real alcoholic or, you know, I mean, as opposed

to the rest of us, you know, who thought, hey, it sounded like fun. We'd just come.

You know, alcoholic.

You know, I agree with you.

We never, well, we can't point to anybody else and say, you know, I'm an alcoholic and,

well, actually, in a meeting I did

hear one time, it's one of the greatest things I ever saw in an AA meeting.

Is that my home group on a Monday night?

And they ask for anybody that's new, just stand and give us your name in the nature of

disease so we can get to know you better at the break, right?

And in my meeting, we actually do that, right? And this guy gets, anybody knew, and this can goes up, and this guy stands out,

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