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.
2.
... readers as
it has been revealed to ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
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.
3.
... readers determine,
to their own satisfaction, whether ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
How then shall we help our
readers determine, to
their own satisfaction,
whether they are one of us?
4.
... readers may
think they can do without ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
5.
... readers the
impression that these personality changes, ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
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.
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