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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RETAINED occurs
2 times
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1.
... retained; five
new ones were added.
BB xii,
Preface
In
Part III ("They
Lost Nearly All"),
eight stories were
retained;
five new
ones were
added.
2.
... retained intact;
three were edited and one ...
BB xi,
Preface
"
Bill's
Story," "
Doctor Bob's
Nightmare," and one other
personal history from the
first edition were
retained intact;
three were
edited and one of
these was
retitled; new
versions of
two stories were
written, with
new
titles;
thirty completely new
stories
were
added; and the
story section was
divided into
three parts, under the same
headings that are used now.
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