From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BEHAVE occurs
4 times
(
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1.
... behave.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
2.
... behave like
a partner instead of like ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
At this
point he
firmly but
lovingly commences to
behave like a
partner
instead of like a
bad boy.
3.
... behave like
this?
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
Why does he behave like this?
4.
... behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who thinks ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the
retired business man who
lolls in the
Florida sunshine in the
winter complaining of the
sad state of the
nation; the
minister who
sighs over the
sins of the
twentieth century;
politicians
and
reformers who are
sure all would be
Utopia if the
rest of the
world would only
behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who
thinks society has
wronged him; and the
alcoholic who has
lost all
and is
locked up.
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