And now I think I'm going to have the greatest privilege that I've ever had since I came into this fellowship. I can't say anything flowery. You all know as well or better than I how I feel right now, so I just simply want to give you Bill. Bill? With you out there, I join in gratitude for what we have seen, and heard, and felt. In this marvelous hour. As Lois spoke her lines, touching upon the old days and since, I am sure that you apprehended some things she could not say of the fact that she stayed in the cave until the darkness was complete and did not lose her faith. Thus she symbolizes so many of our partners sitting here. And she kept faith ever since, in many respects as I have never been able to do. So Lois, I express to you the thanks of the whole movement, and yours truly. There's a tag out front here, well never mind, has to do with principles before personalities. That is the theme of this conference. Just as last year at Toronto, we had the theme, I am responsible. Well as Lois evoked images of old time, and the atmosphere of those early groups, I got a fresh reminder of how intensely we then tried to practice the principles that would save our lives and subdue our obstinate and erring personalities. As you see in this very early time, this was not so much a matter of virtue as of necessity. We knew that we had been, and might soon again be victims of one of the most hopeless compulsions, the art of utter lunacy that mankind knows. The stakes were survival. The stakes were the new life that we had just tasted. Could we go on? Well in those days things were very simple. So we attended very closely to this business of staying sober and doing what it took to stay sober. We were surrounded by suicides and failures. We were like Rick and Backer and the company on that raft with a dark sea of alcoholism all about. So we shared the bread and our love and our companionship to an extraordinary degree, considering our state of development. And three years went by. Most had come and looked and had gone away. But there was a hard core who felt and behaved as…