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as i got older, I tended to rely on alcohol as an ice breaker. It helped me function, It helped me work.
“I discovered early on that I could function on a fifth, two fifths of vodka a day. Booze became a very important part of my life. I was uncomfortable without it—but I was never really without it. I never put myself in a position where I had to abstain.
“I think my father might have been an alooholic. My mother wasn’t. My dad’s father may have just been an excessive drinker—I don’t know. But the way he drank, never mixing alcohol with anything else, always drinking with spirit—I associated alcohol with gusto because of my father. I had my coffee black, my cigarettes without filters and my Scotch neat.
“Unlike many alcoholics, I did my drinking alone. I didn’t see the point in paying
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