From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SUFFERER occurs
6 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... sufferer?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
2.
... sufferer's.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
It
engulfs all whose
lives
touch the
sufferer's.
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
5.
... sufferer to
pay him, or even to ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
He does not
expect his
brother sufferer to
pay him, or even to
love him.
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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