From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... heartbreaking.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
2.
... heartbreaking.
BB p.107,
To Wives
It was so baffling, so heartbreaking.
3.
... heartbreaking mail
would have to go unanswered.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
4.
... heartbreaking obsession
that some new miracle of ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that
some new miracle of control would enable us to
do it.
5.
... heartbreaking riddle.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
To clergymen, doctors,
friends, and families,
the alcoholic who means
well and tries hard is a heartbreaking riddle.
6.
... heartbreaking struggle
for money, romance, or self-importance.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle for money, romance, or self-importance.
7.
... heartbreaking was
this discovery; how cruel to ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
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