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From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ILLNESS occurs
16 times
14 in BB • 2 in 12&12
Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
We are
convinced to a
man
that
alcoholics of our
type are in the
grip of a
progressive illness.
2.
While you
need not
discuss your
husband at
length, you can
quietly let your
friends know the
nature of his
illness.
3.
4.
At this
point, it might be
well
to
explain alcoholism,
the
illness.
5.
6.
7.
But not so with the
alcoholic illness, for with it there
goes annihilation of all the
things worth while in
life.
8.
An
illness of this
sort -- and
we have
come to
believe it an
illness --
involves those about us in a
way no other human sickness can.
9.
An
illness of this
sort -- and
we have
come to
believe it an
illness --
involves those about us in a
way no other human sickness can.
10.
At
such moments we
forget that
alcoholism is
an
illness over which we could
not
possibly have had
any power.
11.
12.
Can we have the
same kind of
confidence and
faith in
these
people who have been
infected and
sometimes crippled by our
own illness that we have in our
sponsors?
13.
14.
15.
If that be the
case, you may be
suffering from an
illness
which only a
spiritual experience will conquer.
16.
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