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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BOTTLE occurs
10 times
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1.
... bottle.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
These
emotional "
dry benders" often
led straight to the
bottle.
2.
... bottle.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
Out
came his
carpet slippers and a
bottle.
3.
... bottle and
extinction.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This is not a
moral inventory at all; it is the very
process by which the
depressive has so often been
led to the
bottle and
extinction.
4.
... bottle and
the blackout.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
We are all
perfectionists who,
failing perfection, have
gone to the other
extreme
and
settled for the
bottle
and the
blackout.
5.
... bottle cut
us down.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
No
doubt we shall
point with
pride to the
good lives we
thought we
led before the
bottle cut us down.
6.
... bottle he
misplaced the night before.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
7.
... bottle of
gin near the head of ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I
wondered whether I
dared hide a
full bottle of
gin near the
head of our
bed.
8.
... bottle of
ginger ale before him?
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Of
course he couldn't
drink, but why not
sit hopefully at a
table, a
bottle of
ginger ale before him?
9.
... bottle of
scotch and ruin everything!
BB p.101,
Working With Others
His only
chance for
sobriety would be some place like the
Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an
Eskimo
might
turn up with a
bottle of
scotch and
ruin everything!
10.
... bottle was
always our solution.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Escape via the
bottle was always our
solution.
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