Hi everybody, my name is Sandy Beach and I'm an alcoholic. And thanks for inviting me over, it's a wonderful day. It turns out it was exactly 45 years ago when I picked up the phone and called the inner group and they sent over my sponsor who briefed my family on what was going on and then took me to the meeting and introduced me around and I never took another drink. It was just wonderful and I'm very blessed to have found this fellowship. I brought a second edition along because I was going to show it to Tommy but he's not here because that was the book that we got when we came in and I don't know if you all realize it but on the back cover it said, if you wish to preserve completely personal anonymity when carrying this book, just turn this jacket inside out. It has been especially designed for your convenience. And the inside was the same color but with nothing written on it. So you can see the stigma was still around and people felt uncomfortable walking around with an Alcoholics Anonymous book and today we leave them sitting on our table and we're walking around everywhere and there doesn't seem to be any problem. I've been here a long time and so I want to just make a few comments in the beginning that are my own personal views and if they disagree with your sponsor, your group or whatever it is, then pay attention to them and disregard what I say. But I'm moved to say them anyway so I will. It goes something like this that when AA was brand new, the way you got sober was you wrote to New York and they sent you a book and you got it in the mail and then you opened the book and you followed the instructions in here and it told you about the disease and then it started talking about God and it knew that you were going to resist that idea because all of us hated God when we got here or we didn't understand it or all that so they said, I know you're going to feel this way but relax, we have a chapter to the agnostic and during that chapter it was explained that just keep an open mind, relax. You have a…