From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... adult dreams
were often truly childish.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
2.
... adult in
years we were still behaving ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had failed to see that though adult in years we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody -- friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself -- into protective
parents.
3.
... adult man
or woman, for example, should ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
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