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We admitted
we were powerless over the effects of
alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that
our lives had become unmanageable.
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Came to
believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
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Made a
decision to turn our will and our lives over
to the care of God as we understood Him.
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Made a
searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
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Admitted to
God, to ourselves, and to another human
being, the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Were entirely
ready to have God remove all these defects
of character.
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Humbly asked
Him to remove our shortcomings.
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Made a list
of all persons we had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to them all.
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Made direct
amends to such people, wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or
others.
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Continued to
take personal inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.
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Sought
through prayer and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with God as we
understand Him, praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the power
to carry that out.
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Having had a
spiritual awakening as a result of these
steps, we tried to carry this message to
others who still suffer, and to practice
these principles in all our affairs.