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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... grew by leaps and bounds.    BB xx,  Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
While the internal difficulties of our adolescent period were being ironed out, public acceptance of A.A. grew by leaps and bounds.


2.
... grew in numbers.    BB p.159,  A Vision For You   Go to page 159 in the Big Book
They grew in numbers.

3.
... grew more confident.    12&12 p.137,  Tradition Two
The speaker's voice grew more confident.


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... grew that A.A.'s had to hang together ...    BB xix,  Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
But out of this frightening and at first disrupting experience the conviction grew that A.A.'s had to hang together or die separately.

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... grew, they were joined by young people ...    12&12 p.23,  Step One
As this trend grew, they were joined by young people who were scarcely more than potential alcoholics.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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