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


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1.
... regard as hopeless.   BB xxv(xxiii), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.

2.
... regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill ...   12&12 p.96, Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.


3.
... regard it in a different light.   BB p.116, To Wives   Go to page 116 in the Big Book
Should it happen again, regard it in a different light.


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