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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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No one ought to say the A.A. program requires no willpower; here is one place you may require all you've got.
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We got a pretty severe shock when we realized that we were preparing to make a face-to-face admission of our wretched
conduct to those we had hurt.
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Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the
feeling that we didn't quite
belong.
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I used to put eight or twelve ounce bottles of alcohol in a fur lined glove and toss it onto the back airing porch when winter days got dark enough.
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He got drunk.
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Why was it, when these dangers
were pointed out that they agreed, and then got drunk again immediately?
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If even one publicly got drunk, or was lured into using A.A.'s name for his own purposes, the damage might be
irreparable.
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Understand he was once a
well-known lawyer in town, but just now we've got him strapped down tight.(*)
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He got in touch with a prominent psychiatrist
who had undertaken certain responsibilities for the mental health of the community.
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When such stories got into circulation outside of A.A., the loss of confidence in our anonymity promise was severe.
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He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.
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Change of scene, the best efforts of family, friends, doctors, and clergymen
got no place with my alcoholism.
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Then he got on the phone.
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News of this got on the world wires; inquiries poured in again and many people went to the bookstores to get the book "Alcoholics Anonymous."
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Have we alcoholics in A.A.
got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so
many?
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After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I
would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I would
steal the alcohol about the
building, so that I got rapidly worse.
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Of alcoholics who came to
A.A. and really tried, 50% got sober at once and remained that way; 25% sobered up after some relapses, and among the remainder, those who stayed on with A.A. showed improvement.
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Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about
the job she was doing and how
she was overpaid, then such
a person could surely not be
called a professional
A.A.
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If we place instincts first, we have got the cart before the horse; we shall be pulled backward into disillusionment.
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When I got the fog out of my brain, I decided that quitting school was very foolish and that I had better
return and continue my work.
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Then they got the point.
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From great numbers of such experiences, we could
predict that the doubter
who still claimed that he
hadn't got the "spiritual
angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.
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So did a friend of mine who
was a one-time vice-president of the American Atheist Society, but he got through with room to spare."
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I gave the matter much time and study for the next two and a half years, but I still got tight every night nevertheless.
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I got tight that night, stayed sober Monday till after the dinner, and then proceeded
to get tight again.
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Even though your protégé may not have entirely admitted his condition, he has become very curious to know how you got well.
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But a few did, and when these laid hold of A.A. principles with all the fervor with which the drowning seize life preservers, they almost invariably got well.
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