From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... rose above
their problems.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.
2.
... rose as
he bitterly cried out: "If ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Our friend's gorge rose as he bitterly cried out: "If there is a God, He certainly hasn't done anything for me!"
3.
... rose before
me.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
4.
... rose out
of ignorance of alcoholism.
BB p.107,
To Wives
5.
... rose to
my head I told myself ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
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