From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... baffling feature
of alcoholism as we know ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as
we know it -- this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish.
2.
... baffling malady,
alcoholism.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship
of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery
from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.
3.
... baffling, powerful!
BB p.58,
How It Works
4.
... baffling, so
heartbreaking.
BB p.107,
To Wives
It was so baffling, so heartbreaking.
5.
... baffling still,
he could give himself no ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
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