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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BRAINS occurs
2 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... brains and
bodies have not been damaged ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
That may be
true of
certain
nonalcoholic people who, though
drinking foolishly and
heavily at the
present
time, are able to
stop or
moderate, because their
brains and
bodies have not been
damaged as ours were.
2.
... brains to
use.
BB p.86,
Into Action
Under these
conditions we can
employ our
mental faculties with
assurance, for after all
God
gave us
brains to use.
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