From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... expression of
an aspiration and a hope ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
2.
... expression of
what he could then see, ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
And as he came out the other side of that painful experience, this
prayer was his expression of
what he could then see, feel,
and wish to become:
3.
... expression on
the faces of the women, ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
The expression on the faces
of the women, that indefinable something
in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric atmosphere of
the place, conspired to
let him know that here was haven at last.
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