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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day thank you i'm patty i'm an alcoholic

i'm grateful to be sober i'm grateful to be in the meeting of alcoholics anonymous i want to

thank my friend dine for inviting me and thank you for giving me an opportunity to participate in my recovery.

I'm a little distressed. I just found out this afternoon that my friend has never ridden on a train.

So, there's anybody in this room who has any connections with the railroad?

Please put him in a box car and take him somewhere.

I love Alcoholics Anonymous. I love being here. I love everything about Alcoholics Anonymous.

I'm a little disturbed by the not drinking part, but I think you have to take all of it together. My sponsor always tells me,

when I'm going to do this, she always gives me the same dreary direction. She always says to me,

tell him your name and tell him the truth. I've already told you my name. I'm not so sure I'm going

to tell you the truth. And the reason for that is clear to me.

I mean, I don't know about anybody else in alcoholics,

anonymous, but I never knew that what it used to be like

was going to be important.

If I would have known that when I was out there,

that I would be here tonight,

expected to report to you what it used to be like,

I would have paid more attention to my life. If I would have known I was going to report to you what it used to be like, I would have paid more attention to my life.

If I would have known I was going to report what it used to be like, I can guarantee you I would not have done some of the things that I did.

But I didn't know it was going to be important, so I didn't pay a lot of attention.

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