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September 1953

The Rules Were OK for Others

The story of a woman who thought: "I knew all the pitfalls and would be able to avoid them.

UNTIL I was about twenty-four years old, I was hardly conscious of alcohol at all. I didn't like the taste of it. If given a drink I more often than not put it aside untouched. It was the time of prohibition. Most of the young men I knew carried hip flasks and most of the parties we went to were BYOL parties. A premium had been put on drinking.

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