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We're actually in the family afterwards.

We've just started.

We looked at the first page last week we're on page

123 so we've done with the wives but now we're with the family and this is

far more important for the alcoholic than to wives.

To wives was just to wives.

There was a few little things about the alcoholic,

but now the alcoholic is part of the family. So about 50% of this is going to be for the

alcoholic and how we show up in the family. It is also, it's also assuming that the alcoholic has begun to work the 12 steps of

Alcoholics Anonymous so or if not begun, but is, oh, it may have even gone through the 12 steps of

alcohol anonymous. So let's look at, I won't go back over the first page because it's a sort of preamble to it, but on page

a hundred and twenty through, well actually at the bottom, at the bottom, the last paragraph on page 122 it says sensation of drinking and this is like

you know I came to Alcoholics Anonymous to stop drinking but here they're

telling us that since the cessation of drinking stopping drinking is but the first

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