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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DISTORTED occurs
3 times
(
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1.
... distorted and
exaggerated.
BB p.108,
To Wives
Perhaps your
husband has been
living in that
strange world of
alcoholism where
everything is
distorted
and
exaggerated.
2.
... distorted drives
have been restored to something ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
But
today, in well-
matured
A.A.'s, these
distorted drives have been
restored
to something like their
true purpose and
direction.
3.
... distorted his
so-called guidance.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
He may have
forgotten the
possibility that his
own wishful thinking and the
human tendency to
rationalize have
distorted
his so-called
guidance.
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