Drinking: A Love Story - A Review

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She drank to ease the tention before meeting friends, continued to drink once they got there to keep the mood light and conversation interesting, was always up for one more round, and was always the last to leave. If she was physically able she would drink alone when she got home, until she hit the point of passing out. More times than not she wouldn’t remember the end of the time spent at the bar or even the drive home, much less what she drank when she returned home. She would wake up in fog not knowing what had happened over the last few hours of the night. Sometimes she wouldn’t wake up alone and panicked before turing over to see who was lying next to her, not having a clue about whom she had left with, or what had happened the night before. She could assume what she had drank by the empty bottles laying around her apartment, and many times she had to search street by street, block by block to find her car.
Caroline describes waking up not knowing where she was and ...

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see on the street with a brown paper bag, who has no job and no life, who can’t keep promises and has no responsibilities... not her, she did what she had to do, and more. She was successful!
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