From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ED occurs
18 times
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1.
... Ed.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
2.
... Ed.
BB p.147,
To Employers
After
reading this book, a
junior executive can go to
such a
man and say
approximately this, "
Look here,
Ed.
3.
... Ed, an
early and wonderful friend of ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
4.
... Ed appeared.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
5.
... Ed aside.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
6.
... Ed came
back at them.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
With
great sarcasm Ed came back at them.
7.
... Ed foregather,
they exclaim, "What if we ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
8.
... Ed got
a sales job which took ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
Quite a while
later,
Ed got a
sales job which took him out
of
town.
9.
... Ed had
holed up in a cheap ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
10.
... Ed, "I
can't stand this God stuff!
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
Cried Ed, "I can't
stand this
God stuff!
11.
Ed never
confided any more of what ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
Ed never confided any more of what he saw and
felt in that
hotel room.
12.
Ed not
only stayed, he stayed sober ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
Ed not only
stayed, he
stayed sober --
month after
month.
13.
... Ed out
for blasphemy?
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
14.
... Ed proceeded
to stay sober.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
15.
... Ed stayed.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
16.
... Ed stole
by night into an A.A. ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
About
two weeks later,
Ed stole by
night into an
A.A. member's
house and,
unknown to the
family, went to
bed.
17.
Ed was
an atheist.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
18.
... Ed went
on, "When you guys wrote ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
Relentlessly,
Ed went
on, "When you
guys wrote that
sentence, did you
mean it,
or didn't you?"
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