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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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4 times
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1.
... formed a
group to buy.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Stocks were at the
low point of
1932, and I had somehow
formed a
group to
buy.
2.
... formed about
thirteen years after this chapter ...
BB p.121,
To Wives (Note)
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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