rosie
04-04-2004, 07:49 AM
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As Bill Sees It
High and Low, p. 314
When our membership was small, we dealt with "low-bottom
cases"
only. Many less desperate alcoholics tried A.A., but did
not succeed
because they could not make the admission of their
hopelessness.
In the following years, this changed. Alcoholics who still
had their
health, their families, their jobs, and even two cars in the
garage,
began to recognize their alcoholism. As this trend grew,
they were
joined by young people who were scarcely more than potential
alcoholics. How could people such as these take the First
Step?
By going back in our own drinking histories, we showed them
that
years before we realized it we were out of control, that our
drinking
even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the
beginning of a
fatal progression.
12 & 12, p. 23
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As Bill Sees It
High and Low, p. 314
When our membership was small, we dealt with "low-bottom
cases"
only. Many less desperate alcoholics tried A.A., but did
not succeed
because they could not make the admission of their
hopelessness.
In the following years, this changed. Alcoholics who still
had their
health, their families, their jobs, and even two cars in the
garage,
began to recognize their alcoholism. As this trend grew,
they were
joined by young people who were scarcely more than potential
alcoholics. How could people such as these take the First
Step?
By going back in our own drinking histories, we showed them
that
years before we realized it we were out of control, that our
drinking
even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the
beginning of a
fatal progression.
12 & 12, p. 23
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