From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... painfully admit
that and mend his spiritual ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
2.
Painfully aware
of being somehow abnormal, the ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Painfully aware of being somehow abnormal, the man did not fully realize what it meant to be alcoholic.(*)
3.
... painfully festering,
will at first look like ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still
painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery.
4.
... painfully slow.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
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