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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ESSENTIAL occurs
2 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... essential psychic change.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
One
feels that something more than
human power is
needed to
produce the
essential psychic change.
2.
... essential requirements.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
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