From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... answered all
my problems.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
My friend promised when
these things were done I
would enter upon a new relationship with my
Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my problems.
2.
... answered by
people who know.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Sacks of letters on every conceivable A.A. problem ranging from a lonely-heart Eskimo to the growing pains of thousands of groups must be answered by people who know.
3.
... answered; pamphlets
and books were sent out.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
4.
... answered some
of them.
BB p.108,
To Wives
5.
... answered the
phone dozens of times a ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently
diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about the job she
was doing and how she was overpaid, then such a person could surely not be called a professional
A.A.
6.
... answered with
a prompt affirmative by almost ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
Of course, the often disputed question of whether God can -- and will, under certain conditions -- remove defects of character will be answered with a prompt affirmative by almost any A.A. member.
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