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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
TRAGIC occurs
8 times
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1.
... tragic.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
Our
struggles with them are
variously strenuous,
comic, and
tragic.
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
This
tragic situation has
already
arrived in
practically every
case long before it is
suspected.
6.
... tragic things.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We have been
speaking to you of
serious, sometimes
tragic
things.
7.
... tragic things
while drinking.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He does
absurd,
incredible,
tragic things
while
drinking.
8.
... tragic truth
is that if the man ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
The
tragic truth is that if
the
man be a
real alcoholic, the
happy day may not
arrive.
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