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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HELPLESS occurs
one time
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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... helpless as
those who had been drinking ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Several of our
crowd,
men of
thirty or
less, had been
drinking only a few
years,
but they
found themselves as
helpless as those who had been
drinking twenty years.
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