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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
O'CLOCK occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... o'clock --
five hours after the market closed.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
It was
eight o'clock --
five hours after the
market closed.
2.
... o'clock I'd
be boiled as an owl."
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
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."
3.
... o'clock --
so what?
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
My
friends had
dropped
several
million since
ten
o'clock -- so what?
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