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My name is Chris, and I am an alcoholic.

It has been quite a pleasure coming up here to Montclair and putting together the team of people who have come up and shared of their

experience, strength and hope.

And, you know, I'm always thrilled to participate and quite honored when asked to do these

things.

And we hope that, you know, we've brought a message of depth and weight and hope up with us from the Bernersville area.

You know, before I bring up tonight's two speakers, we're going to end with a bang with two wonderful, wonderful guys, Ian and Jonathan.

I've known them for a long time.

And Ian is quite possibly the most generous person I've met in Alcoholics Anonymous with his time, with whatever he has.

He's always there for people.

Jonathan has done the extraordinary job of putting a website together for our home group

where people actually listen to our meetings around the world on this website.

And I get emails from, you know, Australia and Europe asking questions about certain things.

And it's really made it it's really it's

really done a lot of good for for carrying the message and you know these these two guys are

very very good friends of mine one of the sad things to happen in Alcoholics Anonymous and through looking back on it

it's hard to pinpoint exactly what went wrong or when it went wrong but somewhere after

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