From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EAT occurs
6 times
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1.
... eat any
breakfast.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
2.
... eat, drink,
and grab for more of ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
We
eat,
drink, and
grab for more of
everything
than we
need,
fearing we
shall
never have
enough.
3.
... eat in
a bar, by all means ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
If you are with a
person who
wants to
eat in a
bar, by all
means go along.
4.
... eat little
or nothing when drinking, and ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
I could
eat little or
nothing when
drinking, and
I was
forty pounds under
weight.
5.
... eat sweets
and have found this practice ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
Many of us have
noticed a
tendency to
eat sweets and have
found this
practice beneficial.
6.
... eat, to
reproduce, to be somebody in ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Every
normal person wants, for
example, to
eat, to
reproduce, to be
somebody in the
society of his
fellows.
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