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alcoholic good to be here you know um somebody uh somebody uh somebody relapse i don't know i got a little

experience with relapsing too but and uh And I said to him, outside of an AA meeting, who cares when the last time you drank was?

You know, could imagine walking up to a guy and shit?

I didn't drink in, you know, like a year.

It'll be...

What?

What are you nuts? Yeah. So what, what matters is your

connection to God. So, you know, that, that hit me, that hit me hard years ago. I was a chronic,

chronic relapser. I came into AA in, well, I was dragged to a meeting in the 70s,

but I went to a rehab in 82,

and I stayed clean for about, I don't know,

sober for maybe five years, maybe because I don't really

know because when I drank or used, I don't know about you, but I didn't change my clean date

sometimes, still wanted the coins.

You know, I got them.

I have coins.

You know, I've since made amends to the groups that I've taken the coins from and chaired the meetings on other substances.

You know, they were all drunks. They didn't know if my eyes were all pinned shut on something else.

So, I went, I went back, I made all the mends. I want to, I want to say this, that after being sober

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