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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INTENSE occurs
3 times
(
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1.
... 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
The
intense relief on my
friend's
face warmed my
heart.
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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