From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... happened.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
But nothing happened.
2.
... happened.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
3.
... happened.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
4.
... happened?
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
What had happened?
5.
... happened.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
6.
... happened.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... happened.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... happened.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
But even in this type of beginning we are obliged
to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened.
9.
... happened.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
10.
... happened among
us, they can happen with ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
11.
... happened, and
what we are like now.
BB p.58,
How It Works
Our stories disclose in
a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now.
12.
... happened automatically.
BB p.85,
Into Action
13.
... happened in
their lives.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their lives.
14.
... happened, or
by the doctor, or probably ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I think I must have been thoroughly scared by what
had happened, or by the doctor, or probably both, so that I did not touch a
drink again until the country went dry.
15.
... happened, our
Fellowship's confidence would be shaken.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
16.
... happened soon
after they whole-heartedly met a ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
17.
... happened, to
an unbelievable extent.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
18.
... happened to
be good, we no longer ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the worse, for we had learned
that these troubles could be turned into great values.
19.
... happened to
him and all the others ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
20.
... happened to
me"; or, more important, "Yes, ...
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."
21.
... happened to
them, to be advised how ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what
had happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
22.
... happened to
you.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
23.
... happened to
you I don't understand.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
24.
... happened years
ago.
BB p.80,
Into Action
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