From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... rings unanswered,
if we do not reply ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
If nobody does the group's
chores, if the area's telephone rings unanswered, if we do not reply to our mail, then A.A. as we know it would stop.
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