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These citations are software generated and may contain errors. The meeting was chaired by a middleaged white female and began with a group recitation of the serenity prayer, after which various members read portions of the groups primary text, alcoholics anonymous 2001 referred to within the group as the big book and the twelve steps from laminated. It is the basic text of the fellowship of alcoholics anonymous, and has helped large numbers of alcoholic men and women, young and old, recover as of december 2009, 30,664,881 copies of the big book have been sold or otherwise. The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism is a 1939 basic text, describing how to recover. The equivalent resource for the older apa 6 style can be found here. Writing the big book the creation of aa gives us an intensely detailed look at the eighteen month period during which aas principal text was produced.
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