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My name is John. I'm an alcoholic. First of all, I want to thank Sarah and Alex for taking such good care of me and giving me here and making sure I'm comfortable while I'm here.

And I want to thank you both personally. I want to thank all of the people, the hosts, the people on whatever committees areas that put this thing together.

And I mean the parole of us. I'm not, I am speaking just for me, but not just for making it possible for me.

But anybody that had anything to do with putting Tiki Paul together and making it possible for all of us.

I want to thank you and it means a lot to me and it's something else I want to say. I have to say it.

That most of the time, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, I'll tell you that it's, I'm real grateful to be sober.

And that's one of the most important facts of my life. And right now, it's a little different and I'm real grateful for it.

And that is, is that I'm grateful we're sober, all of us. And it means a lot to me, man.

You're done. I'm real grateful for that, man, because I don't believe there will be much of me without us.

And I mean that.

My sobriety date is this and the length of 2001. That's the most important date of my life, man.

And I probably I'm not going to talk much of what I will tell you what I was like in my drink and man.

Hopefully I won't spend too much time and doing that in case, you know, in case nobody knows, I have to say this first, man.

In case somebody in here does not know, you never have to take another drink of alcohol, another day in your life unless you want to.

And you can breathe now, man. I can remember the first time that a guy told me that I won't say his name, but he said, son, I'll tell you three things.

And I was shaking like a lost dog in the rain. And he said, he said, son, I'll tell you three things.

And number one is you never have to drink again another day in your life unless you want to.

And I can remember about a look in his eyes, he meant it, man.

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