From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... paying board.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
I thought of Lois coming home exhausted from the department store each day, only to cook supper for a houseful of drunks who weren't paying board.
2.
... paying my
debt to the man who ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
3.
... paying off.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
4.
... paying too
great a penalty, although I ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
During these years, I drank as much as my purse permitted, still without paying too great a penalty, although I was beginning to have morning
"jitters" at times.
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