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Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. Let us tell you the rest of the conversation our friend had with his doctor. It works, if we have the proper attitude and work at it. Big book meeting at these meetings, a member will usually read out of the big book and then encourage its members to discuss. Taking this book down from our shelf we turn to the page which contains the twelve steps. Change in big book alcoholics anonymous, 12 steps and 12. Aa big book workshop, taking the 12 steps as done in the 1940s. Aa big book unofficial app for alcoholics anonymous. The story on page 123 is the one that most closely matches the story in the book. The big book is alcoholics anonymouss primary text. Neither one of these actually match the story in the big book.
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