From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... gates of
death.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the
gates of death.
2.
... gates of
hell had closed on him ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
3.
... gates of
insanity or death.
BB p.30,
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