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July 1998

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Born sober

Like anybody else, I was born with a sober mind. Up to my eighteenth year, I didn't taste anything with an alcoholic smell. I was lured into drinking by peer-group pressure and started with softened waragi, a local potent undistilled gin. I progressed unhindered to taking unmixed stuff and graduated to heavier spirits when I started working.

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