From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sufferer?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
2.
... sufferer's.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
3.
... sufferer confined
to an iron lung who ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Ask the polio sufferer confined to an iron lung who depends with complete trust upon a motor to keep the breath of life in him.
4.
... sufferer to
become happily and usefully whole.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual
in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.
5.
... sufferer to
pay him, or even to ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
6.
... sufferer will
rouse himself from his lethargy ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
In a vague way their families and friends sense that these drinkers
are abnormal, but everybody hopefully awaits the day when the sufferer will rouse himself from his lethargy and assert his power of will.
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