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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PERISH occurs
2 times
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1.
... perish.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
Faith has to
work twenty-
four hours a
day in and through us, or
we
perish.
2.
... perish if
it does.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
In this
respect, we do not
enter into
public controversy, because we
know that our
Society will
perish if it does.
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