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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HAPPENED occurs
24 times
18 in BB • 6 in 12&12
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1.
In
no time I was
beating on the
bar asking myself how it
happened.
2.
What had happened?
3.
On
each of these
occasions
we
worked with him,
reviewing carefully what
had
happened.
4.
We
asked him to
tell us
exactly how it
happened.
5.
Next day we would
ask ourselves, in all
earnestness and
sincerity, how it could have
happened.
6.
But
even in this
type of
beginning we are
obliged to
admit that our
justification for a
spree
was
insanely insufficient in the
light
of what
always happened.
7.
Without that,
nothing
could have
happened.
8.
9.
When that
lifted, a
wonderful thing had
happened.
10.
The
practical answer is
that since these
things have
happened among us, they can
happen with you.
11.
Our
stories disclose in a
general way what we
used to be
like, what
happened, and what we are
like now.
12.
We
react sanely and
normally, and we
will find that this has
happened automatically.
13.
These
give a
fair cross section of our
membership and a
clear-
cut idea of what has
actually happened in their
lives.
14.
I
think I
must have been
thoroughly scared by what
had
happened, or by the
doctor, or
probably both, so that I did not
touch a
drink again until the
country went dry.
15.
The
moment that
happened, our
Fellowship's
confidence would be
shaken.
16.
17.
Precisely that has
happened, to an
unbelievable
extent.
18.
If our
circumstances happened to be
good, we
no longer dreaded a
change for the
worse, for we had
learned that
these
troubles could be
turned into
great values.
19.
What would have
happened to him and all the
others he
later helped?"
20.
If you have a
drinking problem, we
hope that you may
pause in
reading one of the
forty-
two personal stories and
think: "
Yes, that
happened to me"; or,
more important, "
Yes, I've
felt like that"; or, most
important, "
Yes, I
believe this
program can
work for me too."
21.
22.
Tell him
exactly what
happened to you.
23.
Finally he
shook his
head saying, "
Something has
happened to you
I don't
understand.
24.
This all
happened years ago.
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