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We have invited four people to share their experience, strength, and hope on the topic

of singleness of purpose. Our panelists will be Jamie W. from Sacramento, California.

Joe F. from Cleveland, Ohio. Susan H. from Phoenix, Arizona. And Mike F. from Chandler,

Arizona. And with that, our first speaker will be Jamie.

Hi, my name is Jamie and I'm an alcoholic.

Thanks, guys. I love you too. Can you hear my heart beating right now? Oh gosh. First of all, I want to

thank the host committee for asking me to be of service. It's truly an honor and a privilege,

you know, to show up and be asked to participate. And so far from what I've seen,

this has been an absolutely superb convention. And so if any of the host committee members are

in here or anyone being a service this weekend, thank you so much for your service. I have had

the privilege of being able to participate in my state's young people's convention in some

pretty incredible capacities. And so I was a part of the host committee for Aki Pa in 2008.

And I know all of the hard work that goes into putting this on. So from the bottom of my heart,

thank you. I have a sobriety date. It's September 9th of 2002. And when I got here and they

mentioned we're going in order of sobriety, my first thought was like, oh, that's great. I have

10 years. I'll be somewhere in the middle. And I'm first. So which is really cool. You know,

it's 10 years sobriety. I'm the baby up here. And I have a home group. It's called Too Young. We meet

on Thursday nights at 730 in Sacramento, California at St. Marks, United Methodist Church. If you are

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