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

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DOOR   occurs   18 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
See also...     doors
dope
doses
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1.
... door.   12&12 p.40, Step Three
To make this increasingly possible is the purpose of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.

2.
... door.   12&12 p.137, Tradition Two
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen door.

3.
... door.   12&12 p.162, Tradition Seven
Just then an old acquaintance stuck a tousled and aching head in the door.


4.
... door.   BB p.123, The Family Afterward   Go to page 123 in the Big Book
The first impulse will be to bury these skeletons in a dark closet and padlock the door.


5.
... door.   BB p.157, A Vision For You   Go to page 157 in the Big Book
I'm afraid to go out the door.

6.
... door and asked to be let in.   12&12 p.141, Tradition Three
A newcomer appeared at one of these groups, knocked on the door and asked to be let in.

7.
... door couldn't get a break.   12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven
We saw that if they weren't, the man coming in the door couldn't get a break.

8.
... door ever so slightly open, we find ...   12&12 p.35, Step Three
Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more.


9.
... door jambs, over beams in the cellar, ...   BB p.176, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 176 in the Big Book
If my wife was planning to go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.


10.
... door on it.   BB p.83, Into Action   Go to page 83 in the Big Book
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

11.
... door open.   12&12 p.34, Step Three
All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open.


12.
... door opened and he stood there, fresh-skinned ...   BB p.9, Bill's Story   Go to page 9 in the Big Book
The door opened and he stood there, fresh-skinned and glowing.


13.
... door opened into an attractive bar.   BB p.154, A Vision For You   Go to page 154 in the Big Book
Down the lobby a door opened into an attractive bar.

14.
... door opens almost of itself, and looking ...   12&12 p.34, Step Three
Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which is an inscription.


15.
... door panels, smashed treasured crockery, and ripped ...   BB p.106, To Wives   Go to page 106 in the Big Book
They struck the children, kicked out door panels, smashed treasured crockery, and ripped the keys out of pianos.

16.
... door shouting the good news.   12&12 p.83, Step Nine
We want to come in the door shouting the good news.

17.
... door the break he ought to have.   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
She was helping to give the man coming in the door the break he ought to have.

18.
... door which to all appearances is still ...   12&12 p.34, Step Three
Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked.


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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