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... careers.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
2.
... careers, and
it has revealed in stark ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we
have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
3.
... careers do
not professionalize A.A.'s Twelfth Step."
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
4.
... careers have
been characterized by countless vain ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people.
5.
... careers most
of us could have stopped ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
Though there is no way of proving it, we believe that early in our drinking careers most of us
could have stopped drinking.
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