From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... cross-examine themselves
ruthlessly to determine how their ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own
personality defects
have thus demolished
their security.
2.
... cross section
of America, and in distant ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Alcohol being no respecter of persons, we are an accurate cross section of America, and in
distant lands, the same democratic evening-up process is now going on.
3.
... cross section
of our membership and a ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in
their lives.
4.
... cross the
street, lest I collapse and ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely
daylight.
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