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So my name is Tim.

I'm an alcoholic.

I don't speak for AA.

You need to know that.

This is going to be a very personal view.

And I may change my mind at a later point in time.

So this is just how things appear to me today. I've gone back on almost everything I've thought at some point.

So I'll probably go back on this, but this is how things appear to me.

Someone could keep an eye on the other microphones. That will be super helpful. Thanks, Alistair.

So this is called the games we play with sponsors. Now, what I'm going to be talking about this

evening is it's such a sensitive topic, frankly. It's not talked about in meetings at all

because it's so sensitive.

Although if you've got a sponsor and you have sponsors of your own,

as soon as you get sponsors of your own,

you discover yourself talking to your sponsor far more

than you did when you had your own problems.

And so all of this material, it's not, I haven't come up with anything new. All of this

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