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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DROWNING occurs
2 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... drowning men.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
We, in our
turn,
sought the
same escape with all the
desperation of
drowning men.
2.
... drowning seize
life preservers, they almost invariably ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
But a
few did, and when these
laid hold of
A.A. principles with all the
fervor with which the
drowning seize life preservers, they
almost invariably got well.
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