From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... tragic.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
2.
... tragic.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Now and then the family will be plagued by spectres from the past, for
the drinking career of
almost every alcoholic has been marked
by escapades, funny, humiliating, shameful
or tragic.
3.
... tragic, blunders
in this fashion.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion.
4.
... tragic experience
out of the past.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we
burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past.
5.
... tragic situation
has already arrived in practically ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
6.
... tragic things.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
7.
... tragic things
while drinking.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
8.
... tragic truth
is that if the man ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
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