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Hi everybody, my name is Johnny and I'm an alcoholic. I'm an alcoholic. I'm glad to be here and I'm glad to be sober. I'm glad to be in a meeting of alcoholics Anonymous. I want to thank my friend Frederick for

extending the privilege of participating in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

It's my opinion and I hope it always

remains such that it's some type of a privilege to be allowed to come and sit with

you with people. I hope I don't ever get it through my sick head that I have a right to everything that goes on in Alcoholics Anonymous.

Just because I was lucky enough to stumble into a room and get sober and stay that way.

I'm here to tell you that everything is good and decent in my life today

as a direct result of the God I discovered setting

in meetings with alcohol synonymous. So my life today is a very good one and it do probably to the actions that I've taken in Alcoholics Anonymous,

even though I didn't even believe in them

most of the time.

I still don't believe in them most of the time. I still don't believe in them most of the time, but I still do them because I haven't got a better idea.

I'm extremely pleased to be here today, fully clothed and in my right mind.

And the reason I tell you that is the longer I stay sober the more necessary it becomes for me to remember from whence I came.

And I never want to forget that a little over 46 years ago today I came to in a cell in

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