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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... readers and proved to them that the ...   12&12 p.17, Foreword
This established identification with alcoholic readers and proved to them that the virtually impossible had now become possible.


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... readers as it has been revealed to ...   BB p.39, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 39 in the Big Book
This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience.


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... readers determine, to their own satisfaction, whether ...   BB p.34, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 34 in the Big Book
How then shall we help our readers determine, to their own satisfaction, whether they are one of us?


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... readers may think they can do without ...   BB p.27, There Is A Solution   Go to page 27 in the Big Book
Some of our alcoholic readers may think they can do without spiritual help.


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... readers the impression that these personality changes, ...   BB p.567(569), Appendix II, Spiritual Experience   Display entire Appendix II
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in the nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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