From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... burned behind
him.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
His financial insecurity worries him
sick, and panic takes over when he thinks of all the bridges to
safety that alcohol burned behind him.
2.
... burned by
alcohol does not often recover ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.
3.
... "burned up."
BB p.65,
How It Works
We were "burned up."
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