From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... awful awakening
to face the hideous Four ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
Momentarily we did -- then would come oblivion and the awful awakening to face the hideous Four Horsemen -- Terror, Bewilderment,
Frustration, Despair.
2.
... awful debts,
possess a decent home, educate ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?
3.
... awful hangover.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
4.
... awful jam
that cost him the affection ...
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?
5.
... awful lot
more.'
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
But I think I speak for everyone here when I say that what you now propose bothers us an awful lot more.'
6.
... awful shriek
would go up from the ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
7.
... awful to
admit that, glass in hand, ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking
that only an act of Providence can remove it
from us.
8.
... awful to
contemplate (and it usually is), ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Should his own image in the mirror be too awful to contemplate (and it usually is), he might first
take a look at the results normal people are getting from self-sufficiency.
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