From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SPRUNG occurs
4 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... sprung and
flowered.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The
principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until
we
first admit complete defeat is the
main taproot from which our
whole Society has
sprung and
flowered.
2.
... sprung up
between you and your friends ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Barriers which have
sprung
up between you and your
friends will
disappear with the
growth
of
sympathetic understanding.
3.
... sprung up
in other communities."
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Already,"
continues the
early text "
twos and
threes and
fives of us have
sprung up in
other
communities."
4.
... sprung up
in other communities, through contact ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Little clusters of
twos and
threes and
fives of us have
sprung up in
other
communities, through
contact with our
two larger centers.
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