From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... frantic attempt
to get on his feet ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
He may either plunge into
a frantic attempt to get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.
2.
... frantic inquiries
into the little New York ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
This brought a rush of 800 frantic inquiries into the little
New York office which meanwhile had
been established.
3.
... frantic letters
from distraught alcoholics and their ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack
Alexander's Saturday
Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics
and their families hit the
Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.
4.
... frantic wives
and relatives, innumerable trips to ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
It may mean sharing your money and your home, counseling frantic wives and relatives, innumerable trips to police courts, sanitariums, hospitals, jails and asylums.
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