From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... virtually everyone
the first 100 members could ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
The stories added to this
edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened
to encompass virtually everyone the first 100 members could have hoped to reach.
2.
... virtually impossible
for him to stop.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We are equally positive
that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system,
something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.
3.
... virtually impossible
had now become possible.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
This established identification with alcoholic readers and proved to them that the virtually impossible had now become possible.
4.
... virtually no
other solution."
BB p.43,
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