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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PAINFULLY occurs
4 times
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1.
... painfully admit that and mend his spiritual ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
He had to
painfully admit
that and
mend his
spiritual fences.
2.
Painfully aware of being somehow abnormal, the ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Painfully aware of being
somehow
abnormal, the
man
did not
fully realize what
it
meant to be
alcoholic.(*)
3.
... painfully festering, will at first look like ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
This
reopening of
emotional wounds, some
old, some perhaps
forgotten,
and some still
painfully festering, will at
first look like a
purposeless
and
pointless piece of
surgery.
4.
... painfully slow.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
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