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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FORTUNATE occurs
4 times
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1.
... fortunate, don't
even know how to begin?
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
But what about the
rest of us who,
less fortunate, don't even
know how to
begin?
2.
... fortunate enough
to be so situated that ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
A few are
fortunate enough
to be so
situated that they can
give nearly all their
time to the
work.
3.
... fortunate, for
my old business associates remained ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
It was
fortunate, for my
old business associates remained skeptical for a
year and a
half, during which
I
found little work.
4.
... fortunate indeed.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Therefore, we who are
alcoholics can
consider ourselves
fortunate
indeed.
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