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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FORTY occurs
5 times
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1.
... forty foreign
lands.(*)
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
2.
... forty pounds
under weight.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
I could
eat little or
nothing when
drinking, and
I was
forty pounds under
weight.
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."
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