From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... ruin.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
2.
... ruin everything!
BB p.101,
Working With Others
His only chance for sobriety would be some place
like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
3.
... ruin his
health.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
No one wants to be angry enough to murder, lustful enough to rape, gluttonous enough to ruin his health.
4.
... ruin our
relation with another person for ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
One unkind tirade or one willful snap judgment can ruin our relation with another person for a whole day, or maybe a whole year.
5.
... ruin, particularly
to a person in his ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
He trembled as he went
about, for this might mean ruin, particularly to a person in his line of business.
6.
... ruin to
them?
BB p.107,
To Wives
7.
... ruin your
life and the lives of ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
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