Had you offered yourselves as patients at this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to avoid it. Do they want to do it…? Had you offered yourselves as patients at this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to avoid it. We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill. How then shall we help our readers determine, to their own satisfaction, whether they are one of us? Point out the examples… The insanity and total powerlessness over booze
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As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedatives and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work. What are these simple things? Yet he had no control whatever over alcohol. Heavens knows, we have tried hard enough and long enough to drink like other people! The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be mashed. The simple things are the rest of the steps
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