From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... retaliate.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
2.
... retaliate.
BB p.62,
How It Works
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
3.
... retaliate in
kind.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
If our sex conduct is selfish, we may excite jealousy, misery, and a strong desire to retaliate in kind.
4.
... retaliate, snatching
all they can get out ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
And do not his actions make
each of them wish to retaliate, snatching all they
can get out of the show?
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