From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... older and
sees the impossibility of this, ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
As he gets older and sees the impossibility
of this, he can smile good-naturedly at his childhood dream.
2.
... older members
of Alcoholics Anonymous to be ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
The American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that a
paper be prepared by one of the older members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read at the
Association's annual
meeting of that year.
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