From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... mess!"
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
What a mess!"
2.
... mess of
trying to live by this ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
But we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholics.
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