From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... lived.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
In Step Eight, we continued our housecleaning, for we saw
that we were not only in conflict with ourselves, but also with people and situations in
the world in which we lived.
2.
... lived.
BB p.66,
How It Works
3.
... lived and
shivered many years.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
4.
... lived before.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before.
5.
... lived felt
forced to send for my ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
There my drinking became
so much worse that the boys in the fraternity house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.
6.
... lived from
hour to hour?
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
What happens when we try to
dominate the whole family, either by a rule of iron or by a constant outpouring of
minute directions for
just how their lives should
be lived from hour to hour?
7.
... lived in
conscious companionship with his Creator.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
8.
... lived in
constant worry about those who ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
9.
... lived in
hell.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
10.
... lived on
a spiritual plane.
BB p.116,
To Wives
11.
... lived there
but a few weeks when ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
He had lived there but a few weeks when he found that the place probably contained more alcoholics per square mile than any city in the country.
12.
... lived with
a drinker.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
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