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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
GRAVELY occurs
4 times
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1.
... gravely affected?
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Or do we
first consult
those who are to be
gravely affected?
2.
... gravely affected, one does not necessarily have ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
To be
gravely affected,
one does not
necessarily have to
drink a
long time nor take the
quantities some of us have.
3.
... gravely defective, but he somehow knows that ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
His
own character may
still be
gravely defective, but he somehow
knows that
God has
enabled him to make a
mighty
beginning, and he
senses that he
stands at the
edge of new
mysteries,
joys, and
experiences of
which he had
never even
dreamed.
4.
... gravely ill person, with this qualification -- being ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
Say that you
believe he is a
gravely ill person, with this
qualification -- being perhaps
fatally ill, does he
want to get well?
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