From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HEARTBREAKING occurs
7 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... heartbreaking.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
People like you are too heartbreaking.
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
Otherwise this
heartbreaking mail would have to go
unanswered.
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
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
How
heartbreaking was this
discovery; how
cruel to be
told they
understood our
men as we did not!
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