Wow! You light up my life. You’re the ones that gave me hope when I didn’t know there was any hope for me. I wanna thank you. I wanna thank every one of you for being here this morning. My name is Liz Bailey. My anonymity’s been shot to hell for a long time. And you’re looking at one of the most grateful alcoholics that you ever could look at in your life. I wanna thank the committee. I wanna thank Tom. I wanna thank, um, her name is, uh, Joni. And, um, I wanna thank Joe, Artie. I don’t see Charlie, but there was a Charlie. I had three gorgeous men meet me at the airport, you know. And, and I met Mike, which was great, and, uh, I’ve met so many of you today, this two days, that’s mind-blowing. I have to know how to stay in my place as an alcoholic because all this love and fanfare could blow you straight to hell, I’ll tell you the truth. Could blow you away. You gotta watch when this start happening. And I wanna thank Dennis. Dennis has been my right arm for two days.

I’ve leaned on him for everything. I’ve ate lunch with him and talked with him, and Dennis, I’ll never get over it. And I asked Dennis to do this to me today because, see, when I get up here, I get on a roll. And I don’t wanna overdo it, ’cause anything is overdone is undone. Remember that, anytime you overdo it. I wanna thank all the previous speakers. I’ve been with them before, and boy, if, when they tell you put on a seat belt for the rest of these two days, you better do that, because I’ve been with these guys that’s coming up. They were wonderful. And I met June this morning. I think her name is June. I’m still sober. And I’m hap- I’m gonna look forward to hearing her. And I just can’t thank you all enough and tell you how much I love you. Now, I have not gone out and gotten anybody a new story, because the one I came in here with was a Lulu. And I wanna thank Brenda for last night. I almost had a revival sitting over there. I almost had a revival.

I was sitting over there crying, and I said, “Amen.” “Amen. Lord,” I was just carrying on with Linda sitting in that one chair, I’ll tell you. It was beautiful. And my sign languages, I’ve just been eating them up for the two days. They are something else wonderful. You know what? I, I told them, I’ve warned them about me already. I said, “Slow me down. Slow me down,” ’cause I work them to death, you know that. I work them to death. I wanna thank the crew that had Danish and coffee with me this morning, Linda, and, uh, s- s- I’m gonna get it. Tell it to me. June, right? I should never forget the month of June, okay. I’ll put that in my computer. June, thank you. There was a minister preaching one time. He says, “If you drink alcohol, you’re doomed to die.” And a little old lady down front, she said, “Amen.” He said, “If you smoke those cigarettes, you’re doomed to die.” And the little old lady said, “Amen.” He said, “Now, if you chew tobacco…” She said, “Look at that.