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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.


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... temporary conditions.   BB p.141, To Employers   Go to page 141 in the Big Book
Nearly always, these antics indicate nothing more than temporary conditions.

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... temporary good fortune came our way, we ...   12&12 p.92, Step Ten
When temporary good fortune came our way, we indulged ourselves in fantasies of still greater victories over people and circumstances.


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