From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... School and
evening service, Monday night Christian ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
From childhood through
high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes
to Wednesday evening
prayer meeting.
2.
... school and
medical textbooks.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
People needed to be told what alcoholism was,
so we'd educate the public, even rewrite school and medical textbooks.
3.
... school came
four years in one of ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After high school came four years in one of the best colleges in the country
where drinking seemed to
be a major extra-curricular activity.
4.
... school friend
asked if he might come ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
5.
... school, I
discovered the faculty had other ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
6.
... school I
was more or less forced ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
From childhood through
high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes
to Wednesday evening
prayer meeting.
7.
... school was
very foolish and that I ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
When I got the fog out of my brain, I decided that quitting
school was very foolish and that I had better return and continue my work.
8.
... school, where
he became rebellious at what ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
He attended church school, where he became rebellious at what he thought an overdose of religious education.
9.
... school would
allow man no flavor for ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
One school would allow man no
flavor for his fare and the
other would have us all on a straight pepper diet.
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