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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ROOT occurs
5 times
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1.
... root and
branch.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I
ruthlessly faced my
sins and
became willing to have my new-
found
Friend take them away,
root
and
branch.
2.
... root causes.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will
come to
mind easily in each
individual
case, will
help turn up the
root causes.
3.
... root of
great human accomplishments, a creative ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
4.
... root of
our troubles.
BB p.62,
How It Works
That, we
think, is the
root
of our
troubles.
5.
... root, slowly
at first, then growing by ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
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