From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... bed.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
About two weeks later, Ed stole by night into an A.A. member's house and, unknown to the family, went to bed.
2.
... bed.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
3.
... bed.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
Two days later, a future fellow of Alcoholics Anonymous stared glassily at the strangers beside his bed.
4.
... bed about
two months before I could ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Finally my father had to
send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.
5.
... bed followed
by a morning of unbearable ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This would lessen my chances of smuggling some
home that evening, which in
turn would mean a night of futile tossing around in bed followed by a morning of unbearable jitters.
6.
... bed, gave
me a few drinks that ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.
7.
... bed, his
hand brushed the bureau near ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
8.
... bed, so
I stepped into the bar ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
When I returned to the hotel it struck me a highball would be fine before going to bed, so I stepped into the bar and had one.
9.
... bed so
intoxicated he ought to sleep ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
10.
... bed to
his knees.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
11.
... bed was
told of the acute poisoning ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The man in the bed was told of the acute poisoning from which he suffered, how it deteriorates the body of
an alcoholic and warps
his mind.
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