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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?


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... nice times they used to have before ...   BB p.126, The Family Afterward   Go to page 126 in the Big Book
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.


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... nice to have a couple of cocktails ...   BB p.41, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 41 in the Big Book
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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