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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... marked by escapades, funny, humiliating, shameful or ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Now and then the
family will be
plagued by
spectres from
the
past, for the
drinking
career of almost every
alcoholic has been
marked by
escapades,
funny,
humiliating,
shameful
or
tragic.
2.
... marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the
end of a
long road,
marked by
successive defeats and
humiliations, and the
final crushing of our
self-
sufficiency, that we
began to
feel humility as something more than a
condition of
groveling
despair.
3.
... marked "Fear."
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
4.
... marked the time when we could commence ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
It
marked the
time when we
could
commence to see the
full implication of
Step Seven: "
Humbly asked Him to
remove our
shortcomings."
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