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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... food.   12&12 p.98, Step Eleven
Most certainly we shall need bracing air and an abundance of food.

2.
... food budget, spend her afternoons gambling, and ...   12&12 p.51, Step Four
She can juggle charge accounts, manipulate the food budget, spend her afternoons gambling, and run her husband into debt by irresponsibility, waste, and extravagance.

3.
... food or construct shelter, there would be ...   12&12 p.42, Step Four
If men and women didn't exert themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest food or construct shelter, there would be no survival.

4.
... food, or sunshine.   12&12 p.97, Step Eleven
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine.


5.
... food, our pick struck gold.   BB p.128, The Family Afterward   Go to page 128 in the Big Book
Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of food, our pick struck gold.

6.
... food, the body suffers.   12&12 p.97, Step Eleven
When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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