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around Halloween. We were out in the vegetable garden with com stalks and pumpkins. It was very exciting and very naughty. Each of us was assigned one quart of beer. 1 finished more of mine than anyone else. That should have been a warning, looking back with that wonderful 20-20 hind sight.

‘And 1 was funny. Everyone laughed at me. 1 felt humorous, an accepted person, everyone’s equal. I’d never felt that way before. I’d always felt like the odd man out. So I associated booze with fitting in. It changed me or the world changed and 1 liked that feeling. But years went by before I began drinkinir.

‘'I'd married again. My husband was a lawyer. We

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