From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... spell lasted
for about three weeks; then ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This dry spell lasted for about three weeks; then I went to Atlantic City to attend several days' meeting of a national society of which
I was a member.
2.
... spell, so
there was nothing new about ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
I had been out of town before during this particular dry spell, so there was nothing new about that.
3.
... spell the
necessary vital spiritual experience.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's
telling him that while his
religious convictions were very good, in his case they did not
spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.
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