From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... deserted barn
determined to die.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
The patient had made his own diagnosis, and deciding his situation
hopeless, had hidden in
a deserted barn determined to die.
2.
... deserted by
my own kind.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
3.
... deserted me.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
After all his pleas for help had been rebuffed, these
words rang in his fevered mind: "They have deserted me.
4.
... deserted us.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
More often, though, we had met up with some major calamity, and to our way of thinking lost out because God deserted us.
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