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

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retreat
return
RETURNED   occurs   13 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
returning
returns
reunion

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1.
... returned.   BB p.84, Into Action   Go to page 84 in the Big Book
For by this time sanity will have returned.


2.
... returned.   BB p.114, To Wives   Go to page 114 in the Big Book
The majority have never returned.


3.
... returned; and at such times a great ...   BB p.57, We Agnostics   Go to page 57 in the Big Book
Save for a few brief moments of temptation the thought of drink has never returned; and at such times a great revulsion has risen up in him.


4.
... returned and he thanked God.   BB p.154, A Vision For You   Go to page 154 in the Big Book
His sanity returned and he thanked God.


5.
... returned at all.   BB p.100, Working With Others   Go to page 100 in the Big Book
We have seen men get well whose families have not returned at all.


6.
... returned from a three-months leave of absence, ...   BB p.138, To Employers   Go to page 138 in the Big Book
He has just returned from a three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."


7.
... returned home, leaving behind his first acquaintance, ...   BB p.159, A Vision For You   Go to page 159 in the Big Book
He now returned home, leaving behind his first acquaintance, the lawyer and the devil-may-care chap.


8.
... returned to New York in the fall ...   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
When the broker returned to New York in the fall of 1935, the first A.A. group had actually been formed, though no one realized it at the time.


9.
... returned to say that is was not ...   BB p.136, To Employers   Go to page 136 in the Big Book
My secretary returned to say that is was not Mr. B___ on the phone; it was Mr. B___'s brother, and he wished to give me a message.


10.
... returned to the hospital.   BB p.7, Bill's Story   Go to page 7 in the Big Book
After a time I returned to the hospital.


11.
... returned to the hotel it struck me ...   BB p.41, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 41 in the Big Book
When I returned to the hotel it struck me a highball would be fine before going to bed, so I stepped into the bar and had one.


12.
... returned to them six months later, a ...   BB p.141, To Employers   Go to page 141 in the Big Book
Had they fired me first, and had they then taken steps to see that I was presented with the solution contained in this book, I might have returned to them six months later, a well man.


13.
... returned to this doctor, whom he admired, ...   BB p.26, There Is A Solution   Go to page 26 in the Big Book
So he returned to this doctor, whom he admired, and asked him point-blank why he could not recover.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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