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“There are no problems that belong solely to the female alcoholic but women, more often than most men, feel intense pressure to keep their alcoholism in the closet. They share that pressure with men in high visibility, high prestige professions. It’s never funny to see Parson Brown drunk. It’s never funny to see the family doctor or the commonwealth’s attorney drunk. And it’s never, ever funny to see a woman drunk.
“I don’t think it’s very important to determine when I started drinking alcoholically but I started thinking alcoholically eight years ago. I was a wine drinker—didn’t consume very much, maybe two, three glasses in an evening but those two or three glasses started to become terribly important.
“I began making decisions on restaurants based on the size of the wine carafe. I started considering people who didn’t drink as ho-hum boring. I felt comfortable with people who
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