From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sustained and
personal exertion to conform to ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
All of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and so, we trust, to God's will.
2.
... sustained mine,
though I at no time ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My wife became deeply interested, and it
was her interest that sustained mine, though I at no time sensed that it might be an
answer to my liquor problem.
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