Chapter: There Is a Solution

From Alcoholics Anonymous — 1955 Second Edition by Wilson, Bill & Smith, Dr. Bob
Chapter Two presents AA as a fellowship of men and women bound by 'the kinship of common suffering' who have found a common solution — a spiritual experience. It introduces the reader to the nature of alcoholism and the spiritual remedy that has worked for the founding members.
Big Book, There Is a Solution, p. 17-29

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Big Book, There Is a Solution, p. 17
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill
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Big Book, There Is a Solution, p. 17
The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us
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Big Book, There Is a Solution, p. 18
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution... is on a different footing
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Big Book, There Is a Solution, p. 20-21

Description of the real alcoholic and what distinguishes him from heavy drinkers

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Big Book, There Is a Solution, p. 25
There is a solution... The great fact is just this, and nothing less
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Big Book, There Is a Solution, p. 28-29

Invitation to the reader who wants what we have

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