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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... John Barleycorn had other ideas.   12&12 p.29, Step Two
But again John Barleycorn had other ideas.

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John Barleycorn himself had become our best ...   12&12 p.24, Step One
John Barleycorn himself had become our best advocate.


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... John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave a dinner ...   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
In the spring of 1940, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave a dinner for many of his friends to which he invited A.A. members to tell their stories.


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... John D. Rockefeller Jr. to introduce Alcoholics ...   BB p.572(574), Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix V
Speaking at a dinner given by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to introduce Alcoholics Anonymous to some of his friends, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick remarked:

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John Doe, a good A.A., moves -- let ...   12&12 p.132, Tradition Two
John Doe, a good A.A., moves -- let us say -- to Middletown, U.S.A.


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... John F. Stouffer, Chief Psychiatrist, Philadelphia General ...   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
Dr. John F. Stouffer, Chief Psychiatrist, Philadelphia General Hospital, citing his experience with A.A., said: "The alcoholics we get here at Philadelphia General are mostly those who cannot afford private treatment, and A.A. is by far the greatest thing we have been able to offer them.


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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