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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MERE occurs
4 times
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1.
... mere code
of morals or a better ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
2.
... mere excuse
to postpone.
BB p.75,
Into Action
But we
must not use this as a
mere excuse to
postpone.
3.
... mere habit,
that it was indeed the ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
By
going back in our
own drinking histories, we
could
show that
years before
we
realized it we were out of
control, that our
drinking
even then was no
mere habit,
that it was
indeed the
beginning of a
fatal progression.
4.
... mere means
of getting money rather than ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
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