From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... percent admission
we were powerless over alcohol, ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced
with absolute perfection.
2.
... percent anonymity
-- was the only possible answer.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
At this altitude (press,
radio, films, and television), anonymity
-- 100 percent anonymity -- was the only possible answer.
3.
... percent of
the A.A.'s surveyed are less ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Seven percent of the A.A.'s surveyed are less than 30 years of age -- among them, many in their teens.
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