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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   Display entire 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.


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... virtually impossible for him to stop.   BB p.22, There Is A Solution   Go to page 22 in the Big Book
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.

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... 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.


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... virtually no other solution."   BB p.43, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 43 in the Big Book
For most cases, there is virtually no other solution."


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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