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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SWALLOW occurs
6 times
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1.
... 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
Second, to get
sober and to
stay sober, you don't have to
swallow all of
Step Two right now.
4.
... swallow and
digest this unpalatable truth.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
5.
... swallow hard.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
They made me
swallow hard.
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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