From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... insistence that
every A.A. must hit bottom ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
2.
... insistence that
the spheres really had their ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance
pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his
insistence that the spheres
really had their music; but
his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke
of these things just before he died; these recollections welled
up from the past.
3.
... insistence upon
anonymity.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
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