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


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... nameless groups of alcoholics trying to hold ...   12&12 p.141, Tradition Three
In that time nothing could be seen but two struggling, nameless groups of alcoholics trying to hold their faces up to the light.

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... nameless groups of alcoholics were secret societies.   12&12 p.184, Tradition Twelve
Our first nameless groups of alcoholics were secret societies.


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... nameless, now began to be called Alcoholics ...   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
The fledgling society, which had been nameless, now began to be called Alcoholics Anonymous, from the title of its own book.


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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