From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... successive days,
so drunk he could hardly ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
Not long afterward he had
called me from Hartford
on two successive days, so drunk he could hardly speak.
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... successive defeats
and humiliations, and the final ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we
began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.
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