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Hey, everybody. Thank you, Devin. I'm Cliff Gooding. I'm a grateful alcoholic. I'm sober since

August 15th of 2001 and for that short amount of time I was grateful as I know how to be.

And I want to say a special thanks to the committee for asking me to come and actually do the

first one. It's an honored privilege to be thought of and especially to be asked to do something.

And it's a great thing to work towards and having the fellowship of the spirit conference, hopefully

live, Donna, in 2022.

And my wife, Devin, had asked my wife.

She actually participated last year, the Fellowship of the Spirit conference that they had,

virtual out of New York last year.

And Devin had called her up, and she spoke on one of the panels for the Alamon family

group.

And I'm excited to be a part of this and excited for what's happening for us in 2022.

And I want to say hello to my friends.

A lot of my friends that are here tonight.

It's good to see them.

Brad from Oklahoma's here just so that you all know there's more than one recovered alcoholic in

Oklahoma. Brad is here and that's good.

Flying the flag from Oklahoma as well. So it's good to be here. Some things I've learned about

in this odd time of COVID-19 and when we're all kind of this lockdown here. I never was much of a 13th stepper, but I've kind of become a 14th steper. I like to watch, and I don't know about you, but I just kind of scroll through the videos. If you're sitting at home thinking, are they looking at me? Hell yes. Just know right now that we're looking at you, man. We're scrolling through and we're checking you out. I've no doubt about that, man.

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