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... drove me back to drink, but I ...   BB p.15, Bill's Story   Go to page 15 in the Big Book
This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.

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... drove us to drink, and when we ...   12&12 p.47, Step Four
We thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics.


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