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I'm Chuck C. and I'm not calling.

AA is pretty special, every place. But in so far as I'm concerned, there is no place

that I receive so much love. That's when I come to text. You people just do me in. You are so

good to me, and you share so much love with me. That makes it almost impossible for me to get up here.

And talk with you this morning. All I want to do is ball and tell you I love you and go home.

I said I'm Chuck C and I'm not calling. I am neither proud of it nor am I ashamed of it. That's

the way it is with me. I am an alcoholic. I think it's a pretty wonderful thing when you and I

can accept ourselves exactly as we are and go from there. I find it not necessary to even

blush about this alcoholism thing. We heard last night that some amongst us think that we might

have gotten cheated because we didn't find this thing earlier. I don't think so. I don't think I

could have found it three days before I got here. I'm quite sure that if the entire 50,000

membership of alcoholic anonymous had a call on me 30 days before I got to eight, I would have

thanked him for coming. I would have told him I was really glad that they had found a way to handle

their problems and I would have agreed with them that I was worth saving.

But I would have told them I will handle my problem myself and I would have thought even then

that I would. I kept telling myself for three years after everybody could listen to me.

I would beat this thing if it's the last thing I ever do and it came that close to being the last

thing I ever did. I'll tell you that. I was having dinner with our beloved Bernie Smith

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