From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... wringer.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
We won't be biased or scared off by that fact, because although he was
not an alcoholic he did, like us, go through the emotional
wringer.
2.
... wringer.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... wringer, have
to admit if we substituted ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We, who have been through the wringer, have to admit if we substituted alcoholism for jay-walking, the illustration would fit us
exactly.
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