From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... affection.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
2.
... affection and
are sometimes singled out for ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
When by devoted service
to family, friends, business, or community
we attract widespread
affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.
3.
... affection of
his family and separated him ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
And how shall he ever straighten out that awful jam that cost him the affection of his family and separated him
from them?
4.
... affection to
an alcoholic.
BB p.104,
To Wives
5.
... affection to
pieces once more.
BB p.107,
To Wives
For a while they would be their old sweet selves, only to dash the new structure of affection to pieces once more.
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