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


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... late 1934 I attended a patient who, ...   BB xxv(xxiii), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.


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... late 1937, the number of members having ...   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
By late 1937, the number of members having substantial sobriety time behind them was sufficient to convince the membership that a new light had entered the dark world of the alcoholic.


3.
... late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.


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... late Dr. William D. Silkworth, our Society's ...   BB xi, Preface   Display entire Preface
The section called "The Doctor's Opinion" has been kept intact, just as it was originally written in 1939 by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, our Society's great medical benefactor.

5.
... late that was discovered.   12&12 p.149, Tradition Four
All too late that was discovered.


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... late twenties was seething and swelling.   BB p.3, Bill's Story   Go to page 3 in the Big Book
The great boom of the late twenties was seething and swelling.


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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