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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DEAD occurs
11 times
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1.
... dead."
BB p.76,
Into Action
2.
... dead.
BB p.82,
Into Action
Had this not been so,
many of us would have
no homes today, would
perhaps be
dead.
3.
... dead.
BB p.82,
Into Action
4.
... dead."
BB p.88,
Into Action
5.
... dead a
long time ago.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If she had not, I
know I would have been
dead a
long time ago.
6.
... dead end,
not something to be endured ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been
set on a
path which
tells him he is
really going somewhere, that
life is not a
dead end, not
something to be
endured or
mastered.
7.
... dead, he
said.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
8.
... dead indeed.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
Then
faith would be
dead indeed.
9.
... dead, suddenly
taken from the scrap heap ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Then he had, in
effect, been
raised from the
dead,
suddenly taken from the
scrap heap to a
level of
life better than the
best he had
ever known!
10.
... dead within
four years.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
11.
... dead wrong.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Of
course our
friend was
wrong --
dead wrong.
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