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guys here and you know if i say i haven't had anything to drink since the second day of May in 1979, you look at me and go, dude, how pathetic is your life?

Obviously, drinking didn't mean anything to you.

And so I want you to take a look.

This is a picture of me when it was still working in 1977, blacked out in the morning.

So just so you call, I really did drink and used.

Okay?

So we like to call this kitchen table AA.

And the reason is, is that we believe the heart and soul of Alcoholics

Anonymous happens with one alcoholic talking to another across the kitchen table. What I'm

going to share with you this morning is kind of the historical legacy of this thing that we call

sponsorship. Now, Bill Wilson said that if he was going to tell the story

of Alcoholics Anonymous, that where he could start with was Noah. But we don't have that

much time, so we're going to start a little closer to us. And this is a picture of Bill and

his sponsor, Ebby.

And he said that, he says here that,

he came to the hospital bringing me a copy of a book by William James,

The Varieties of Religious Experience.

He said, this book gave me the realization that most conversion experiences,

whatever their variety, do have a common denominator of ego collapsed at depth.

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