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


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1.
... law!"   12&12 p.157, Tradition Six
Watching alcoholics committed willy-nilly to prisons or asylums, we began to cry, "There oughtta be a law!"


2.
... law.   BB p.2, Bill's Story   Go to page 2 in the Big Book
I studied economics and business as well as law.


3.
... law, and no intelligence?   BB p.10, Bill's Story   Go to page 10 in the Big Book
How could there be so much of precise and immutable law, and no intelligence?


4.
... law became ill.   BB p.5, Bill's Story   Go to page 5 in the Big Book
The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.


5.
... law course.   BB p.2, Bill's Story   Go to page 2 in the Big Book
Potential alcoholic that I was, I nearly failed my law course.


6.
... law course, and obtained employment as investigator ...   BB p.2, Bill's Story   Go to page 2 in the Big Book
I took a night law course, and obtained employment as investigator for a surety company.


7.
... law died, my wife and father-in-law became ...   BB p.5, Bill's Story   Go to page 5 in the Big Book
The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.


8.
... law is a physician, and through his ...   BB p.7, Bill's Story   Go to page 7 in the Big Book
My brother-in-law is a physician, and through his kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.


9.
... law suit and bogged down completely.   BB p.154, A Vision For You   Go to page 154 in the Big Book
But his venture wound up in a law suit and bogged down completely.


10.
... law was not for me.   BB p.2, Bill's Story   Go to page 2 in the Big Book
By the time I had completed the course, I knew the law was not for me.


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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