From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... boys."
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
2.
... boys and
the men" is the difference ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the difference between "the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which
is of God.
3.
... boys in
the fraternity house where I ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
There my drinking became
so much worse that the boys in the fraternity house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.
4.
... boys, please
go heavier on the hat ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
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