Friends, now it's my privilege to introduce someone to you, and I don't have any introduction other than to say co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous and a man whose 31st anniversary we're celebrating tonight, Bill W. Gracious, what a wonderful, wonderful meeting. It's been grim, but it's also been gay. And the great undercurrent of it all boils to the surface in gratitude beyond expression for this wondrous and vast miracle of recovery that is now encircling the earth. We have quite a parcel of drunks and friends here, but to help our friends stretch their imaginations, it may be that only one out of 300 of us counting worldwide is present. But I know that those 299 who are not here and their wives and their families are thinking of this anniversary time and offering up their gratitude. It's wonderful, it's inexplicable how our friends have given to us. And in the days of the blight and darkness, how they stood by us, even more our relatives, and still more our wives and our husbands. So before getting on with my pitch, I'd like to present my partner, one who stood by when all others had gone, who after AA began, filled her house in Clinton Street in Brooklyn with drunks, none of whom recovered, but there was perhaps the first laboratory, one who since has had 7,000 visitors at the house in Bedford Hills, and one who since has helped to spearhead this wonderful society now sprung up in our midst growing faster than AA ever did. Well, here's Lawrence. Applause Good evening, everybody. Each one of these dinners, these anniversaries, I think is the very best. But this one, I'm sure, couldn't possibly be any better than this. Just simply wonderful. And I want to thank you all for coming to this wonderful anniversary of Bill's surprise. And there are many, many other things I'd like to thank you all for. I'd like to thank the AAs particularly for this wonderful program that they've given to us, the families of AAs. Marge was certainly right. Before our mom, we wives used to go to meetings and be so restless and nervous. But that isn't quite so now because we have a program of our own, so many of us have. And after the wonderful miracle of AA in the early days, of course, we families of alcoholics were…