From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... forty foreign
lands.(*)
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
2.
... forty pounds
under weight.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
3.
... forty-three languages.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
4.
... forty-three personal
experiences.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
5.
... forty-two personal
stories and think: "Yes, that ...
BB xii,
Preface
If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may
pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or,
more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."
6.
... forty years,
except when circumstances made it ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This resolution I kept
steadfastly for the next forty years, except when circumstances made it seem unwise to absent myself.
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