From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... piece.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
2.
... piece broke
in 1941, thousands of frantic ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack
Alexander's Saturday
Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics
and their families hit the
Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.
3.
... piece in
his magazine, called "Alcoholics and ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
In the fall of 1939 Fulton Oursler, then editor of Liberty, printed a piece in his magazine, called "Alcoholics and God."
4.
... piece in
the newspapers..."; another, "We heard ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
One voice says, "I read a piece in the newspapers...";
another, "We heard a radio program..."; and still another, "We saw a moving picture..." or "We saw something about A.A. on television...."
5.
... piece made
A.A. a national institution.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
6.
... piece of
surgery.
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.
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