From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... intense mental
and physical suffering which drinking ...
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
Here was the threat of commitment, the loss of family and position, to say nothing of that intense mental and physical suffering which
drinking always caused him.
2.
... intense relief
on my friend's face warmed ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
3.
... intense, though,
is our fear and reluctance ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
So intense, though, is our
fear and reluctance to
do this, that many A.A.'s at first try to bypass Step Five.
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