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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... died.   12&12 p.163, Tradition Seven
A certain lady had died.


2.
... died in the spring of 1960.   BB p.572(574), Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix V
(*) Father Ed, an early and wonderful friend of A.A., died in the spring of 1960.


3.
... died January 24, 1971.   BB p.16, Bill's Story   Go to page 16 in the Big Book
Bill W. co-founder of A.A., died January 24, 1971.


4.
... died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.   BB p.5, Bill's Story   Go to page 5 in the Big Book
The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.


5.
... died; these recollections welled up from the ...   BB p.10, Bill's Story   Go to page 10 in the Big Book
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke of these things just before he died; these recollections welled up from the past.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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