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1.
... hit again and this time has a ...   BB p.38, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 38 in the Big Book
Presently he is hit again and this time has a fractured skull.

2.
... hit another solid obstacle.   12&12 p.78, Step Eight
When listing the people we have harmed, most of us hit another solid obstacle.

3.
... hit bottom.   12&12 p.24, Step One
The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom.

4.
... hit bottom as truly as any of ...   12&12 p.24, Step One
He had hit bottom as truly as any of us.

5.
... hit bottom first?   12&12 p.24, Step One
Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first?


6.
... hit me hard.   BB p.12, Bill's Story   Go to page 12 in the Big Book
That statement hit me hard.

7.
... hit the Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.   12&12 p.162, Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack Alexander's Saturday Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics and their families hit the Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.

8.
... hit them.   12&12 p.23, Step One
It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would hit them.

9.
... hit to the point where it would ...   12&12 p.23, Step One
It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would hit them.

10.
... hit upon a cure, once it became ...   12&12 p.150, Tradition Five
But once these men had hit upon a cure, once it became apparent that only by their united effort could this be accomplished, then all of them would feel bound to devote themselves solely to the relief of cancer.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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