From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... weren't alone
any more in a social ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
But we soon discovered
that while we weren't alone any more in a social sense, we still suffered many of the old pangs of anxious apartness.
2.
... weren't asked
to speak at A.A. meetings ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
3.
... weren't declined,
absolutely cut off, then the ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
If outside donations
weren't declined, absolutely cut off, then the
Foundation would one day become rich.
4.
... weren't paying
board.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
I thought of Lois coming home exhausted from the department store each day, only to cook supper for a houseful of drunks who
weren't paying board.
5.
... weren't sending
in enough for the support ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The Foundation was really hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the office; we
had been tossing in all the book income and even that hadn't been enough.
6.
... weren't still
self-deceived?
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
If all our lives we had more
or less fooled ourselves, how could we now
be so sure that we weren't still self-deceived?
7.
... weren't, the
man coming in the door ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
8.
... weren't trying
to find how different we ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if
any, this group of alcoholics had in common.
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