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I too enjoyed last year's experience.

It was an excellent experience.

About to do this and anything I can think of can be a group of my people talking about

subjects that I like, just sharing, you know.

I've been asked to share a little bit of regarding the first step, and I worked on the

first step for 34 years, and you think I'd know something about it.

It just proves you've been 34 years doing stuff and not knowing anything.

There's a line in the big book that says that in our program there's not a lot of, it's

not in the book that it's referred to a lot of must.

Some of us would take a little exception to that, because that's our bent, but it says

that we must concede to our animal self, Rob Hawks, and that's a pretty tall order

when you stop and think about it, conceding to your animal self.

Sometimes we intellectually understand, you know, we're emotionally attached to, we have

a awareness of, but really to concede to your animal self, that's something to face

and attention to.

I was drinking alcoholically, long before I became aware of drinking, I remember, while

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