From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... digest.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps life, as it
has a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.
2.
... digest this
unpalatable truth.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
In A.A.'s pioneering time, none but the most desperate cases could swallow and digest this unpalatable truth.
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