And I'm going to take this opportunity to introduce our first speaker of the Colorado High But Dry State Convention. I'd like to introduce to you at this time, Rev. Tom L. Tom. Before we go right along, I brought a message for you. If you'll allow me to read it, then I'll take off my bifocals so I can see you. On Wednesday evening, I attended over in Alexandria, Virginia, the opening sessions of this year's Southeastern Conference of AA. And when they found out I was coming here, the conference committee composed this message and read it there so that everybody would feel a part of it. And this is their word to you. To all of you in this blessed fellowship, we send love and best wishes in your Colorado State Conference. The hundreds of us here in session in the Southeastern Conference join you in spirit as we find new strength and unity together. God bless each of you, and let's sign the Southeastern Conference of AA. My name is Tom Lovern, and I'm an alcoholic. I don't find a great deal of pride in saying I am an alcoholic, but I find a tremendous amount of pride in being able to say today, by the grace of God, the love, help, and understanding of thousands of you. My name is Tom Lovern, and I am an AA. And I want to thank you all so much for letting me share this hour with you as one of the hours in this weekend of fellowship together. I'm grateful to those members of the committee who self-fit to ask me, and I'm grateful to all of those of you whom we have already spent wonderful time together today. I wish I could stay the whole of the weekend, but I have to leave very early in the morning to get back home, and I hope that some of you will see fit to give me a message to take back to the Southeastern Conference, for I'll be there, God willing, tomorrow night again. Some time ago in a meeting similar to this, I heard an emcee get up, and his opening words of address, a welcome to the people, were these, Welcome to the Fellowship and Society of the Abnormal. And this bugged me a little bit, and it has concerned me more as I've thought about…