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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HIDE occurs
7 times
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1.
... hide a
bad motive underneath a good ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
2.
... hide a
full bottle of gin near ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I
wondered whether I
dared hide a
full bottle of
gin near the
head of our
bed.
3.
... hide from
public distrust and contempt.
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Though
ex-
drinkers, we still
thought we had to
hide from
public distrust and
contempt.
4.
... hide lust
in a dark corner of ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
But how many
men and
women speak love with their
lips, and
believe what they
say, so that they can
hide lust in a
dark corner of their
minds?
5.
... hide their
bottles if we go to ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
People have said we
must not go where
liquor is
served; we
must not have it in our
homes;
we
must shun friends who
drink; we
must avoid moving pictures which
show drinking scenes; we
must not go into
bars; our
friends must hide their
bottles if we go to their
houses; we
mustn't think or be
reminded about
alcohol at all.
6.
... hide this
from others.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We used our
education to
blow ourselves up into
prideful balloons, though
we were
careful to
hide
this from others.
7.
... hide underneath
it.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Always we
tried to
struggle to the
top of the
heap, or to
hide underneath it.
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