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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ACADEMIC occurs
one time
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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... academic and pointless if our friend never ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
These
observations would be
academic and
pointless if our
friend never took the
first drink, thereby
setting the
terrible cycle in
motion.
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