From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... attempted.
BB p.64,
How It Works
Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted.
2.
... attempted to
help me, but I would ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted
to help me, but I would get my
friends to smuggle me a
quart, or I would steal the
alcohol about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.
3.
... attempted to
stop altogether and found he ...
BB p.32,
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