From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... impossibility of
this, he can smile good-naturedly ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
As he gets older and sees the impossibility of this,
he can smile good-naturedly at his childhood dream.
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