From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... fifteen fellows
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
2.
... fifteen minutes.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay
over fifteen minutes.
3.
... fifteen when
we left.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
4.
... fifteen years
I had sense enough never ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
During the subsequent
fifteen years I had sense enough never to go to the hospital if I had been drinking, and very seldom did I receive patients.
5.
... fifteen years
of literal hell the rest ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
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