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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SUFFER occurs
13 times
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1.
... suffer and
often revolt.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
2.
... suffer, because
we always paid the bills ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Our
families didn't
suffer, because we always
paid the
bills and
seldom drank at
home.
3.
... suffer, because
we were usually on the ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Our
business associates didn't
suffer,
because we were usually on the
job.
4.
... suffer from
alcoholism.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Three -- Our
membership
ought to
include all who
suffer from
alcoholism.
5.
... suffer from
alcoholism.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
This is the
great news this
book
carries to those who
suffer from
alcoholism.
6.
... suffer from
alcoholism.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
3. Our
membership ought to
include all who
suffer from
alcoholism.
7.
... suffer from
grave emotional and mental disorders, ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
There are those, too, who
suffer from
grave emotional and
mental disorders, but many
of them do
recover if they have the
capacity to be
honest.
8.
... suffer horribly,
but not more than the ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
The
wives and
children of
such
men suffer horribly, but not more than the
men themselves.
9.
... suffer how
we were given help is ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Showing others who
suffer
how we were
given help is the
very thing which makes
life seem so
worth while to us now.
10.
... suffer lingering
and fatal illness with little ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
We have seen
A.A.'s
suffer lingering and
fatal illness with
little complaint, and often in
good
cheer.
11.
... suffer severe
reactions.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
The
minute we make a
serious attempt to
probe them, we are
liable to
suffer severe reactions.
12.
... suffer somewhat.
BB p.109,
To Wives
His
business may
suffer
somewhat.
13.
... suffer these
defects at these rock-bottom levels.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Of
course, most
human beings don't
suffer these
defects at these
rock-
bottom levels.
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