From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... hiding places.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
We think each family which has been relieved owes something to those who have
not, and when the occasion requires, each member of it should be only too willing to bring former mistakes, no matter how grievous, out of their hiding places.
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... hiding some
of our defects while we ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were
hiding some of our defects
while we blamed others for them.
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