From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... nice people
all along, except for our ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If we were pretty nice people all along, except for our drinking,
what need is there for a moral inventory now that we are sober?
2.
... nice times
they used to have before ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
They expect him to give them
the nice times they used to have before he drank so much, and to show his contrition for
what they suffered.
3.
... nice to
have a couple of cocktails ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
As I crossed the threshold of the dining room, the thought came to mind that it would be
nice to have a couple of cocktails with dinner.
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