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


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... mornings and sworn that I'd never touch ...   BB p.158, A Vision For You   Go to page 158 in the Big Book
I've prayed to God on hangover mornings and sworn that I'd never touch another drop but by nine o'clock I'd be boiled as an owl."

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... mornings when we alternated between reviling ourselves ...   12&12 p.84, Step Nine
This will be a very different occasion, and in sharp contrast with those hangover mornings when we alternated between reviling ourselves and blaming the family (and everyone else) for our troubles.


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