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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WRONGED occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... wronged him;
and the alcoholic who has ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the
retired business man who
lolls in the
Florida sunshine in the
winter complaining of the
sad state of the
nation; the
minister who
sighs over the
sins of the
twentieth century;
politicians
and
reformers who are
sure all would be
Utopia if the
rest of the
world would only
behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who
thinks society has
wronged him; and the
alcoholic
who has
lost all and is
locked up.
2.
... wronged us.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Often it was while
working on this
Step with our
sponsors or
spiritual advisers that
we
first felt truly able to
forgive others,
no
matter how
deeply we
felt they had
wronged us.
3.
... wronged us
were perhaps spiritually sick.
BB p.66,
How It Works
This was our
course: We
realized that the people who
wronged us were perhaps
spiritually sick.
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