From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... resolution and
the willingness to get rid ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
How can we possibly summon the resolution and the
willingness to get rid of such overwhelming compulsions and desires?
2.
... resolution I
kept steadfastly for the next ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This resolution I kept steadfastly for the next
forty years, except when circumstances made it seem unwise to absent myself.
3.
... resolution not
to drink again.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm
resolution not to drink again.
4.
... resolution that
all such future gifts would ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
Difficult as it was, they officially declined
that ten thousand dollars, and adopted a formal, airtight resolution that all such future gifts would be similarly declined.
5.
... resolution to
approach him or her.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
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