From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... formed a
group to buy.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
2.
... formed about
thirteen years after this chapter ...
BB p.121,
To Wives (Note)
(*) The fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups was formed about thirteen years after this chapter was written.
3.
... formed the
habit and found they cannot ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
4.
... formed, though
no one realized it at ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
When the broker returned
to New York in the fall of 1935, the first A.A. group had actually been
formed, though no one realized it at the time.
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