From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... distant alcoholics
who had forgotten to send ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I who had boasted my generosity that morning
was treating my own club worse than the distant alcoholics who had forgotten to send the Foundation their dollars.
2.
... distant lands,
the same democratic evening-up process ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Alcohol being no respecter of persons, we are an accurate cross section of America, and in
distant lands, the same democratic evening-up process is now going on.
3.
... distant places
on the theory he would ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
Ask any woman who has sent her husband to distant places on the theory he would
escape the alcohol problem.
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