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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... store, coming home exhausted to find me ...   BB p.4, Bill's Story   Go to page 4 in the Big Book
My wife began to work in a department store, coming home exhausted to find me drunk.

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... store each day, only to cook supper ...   12&12 p.136, Tradition Two
I thought of Lois coming home exhausted from the department store each day, only to cook supper for a houseful of drunks who weren't paying board.

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... store we used to set by imagination ...   12&12 p.100, Step Eleven
When such thoughts break in, we might recall, a little ruefully, how much store we used to set by imagination as it tried to create reality out of bottles.


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