From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... swallow.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
This I can't swallow.
2.
... swallow.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
Though I had been only a nominal churchman, their
proposals were not, intellectually, hard to
swallow.
3.
... swallow all
of Step Two right now.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
4.
... swallow and
digest this unpalatable truth.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
In A.A.'s pioneering time, none but the most desperate cases could swallow and digest this unpalatable truth.
5.
... swallow hard.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
6.
... swallow, let
alone digest.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps life, as it
has a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to
swallow, let alone digest.
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