From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... wanting.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have tried faith and found it wanting.
2.
... wanting to
know about this sort of ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
They wrote the Foundation(*), A.A.'s headquarters in New York, wanting to know about this sort of streamlining.
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