From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DESERVED occurs
2 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... deserved a
pile of folding money.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
When you
add to this the
habitual supposition
that people ought to
give money to
alcoholics trying to
stay sober, it can be
understood why we
thought we
deserved a
pile of
folding money.
2.
... deserved them;
we forgot the actual or ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
We
forgot that most
alcoholics in
A.A. have an
earning power considerably above
average; we
forgot the
immense goodwill of our
brother A.A.'s who were only too
eager to
help us to
better jobs when we
deserved them; we
forgot the
actual or
potential financial insecurity
of every
human being in the
world.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
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