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The manuscript, still in private hands, was about to be again auctioned until a suit. Aas big book calls alcoholism an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer. We explain to our partner what we are about to do and why we have to do it. Here in big book alcoholics anonymous, 12 steps and 12 traditions. Listen to the entire alcoholics anonymous big book as well as audiobooks, audio courses, and speaker tapes to help you stop. The alcoholics anonymous book has stats most authors only dream of. The auction comes as alcoholics anonymous agreed to let bidding go ahead after suing last year to block the manuscripts sale. When we decide who is to hear our story, we waste no time. A sixmonth sobriety coin and a copy of alcoholics anonymous s big book lies on the table of an illinois drug and alcohol abuser. Auction of rare alcoholics anonymous manuscript announced. Since the first edition appeared, in 1939, it has helped millions of men and women recover from alcoholism.

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