From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sat a
miracle directly across the kitchen ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
2.
... sat before
me, and he made the ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
But my friend sat before me, and he made the point-blank declaration that God had done for him what he could not do for himself.
3.
... sat down
at a table and ordered ...
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
4.
... sat drinking
in my kitchen.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
5.
... sat next
to me.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
6.
... sat, on
still Sundays, way over there ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance
pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the
preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke
of these things just before he died; these recollections welled
up from the past.
7.
... sat on
the shore of life drinking ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life drinking ourselves into
forgetfulness or had plunged in recklessly
and willfully beyond
our depth and ability.
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