From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... alternatives: One
was to go on to ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept spiritual help.
2.
... alternatives to
face.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.
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