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So this was kind of a long one that takes place when I was a student at UTEP.

That's a university of Texas at El Paso for those of you that didn't know.

And it happens to be one of the best places to study engineering in the entire country, let alone the Southwest.

But what many of you will know is that El Paso is right across from the real grande from its sister city, Ciedad Juarez.

Back in the early 90s, there was none of the beefed up border security that exists now.

Sure the cartels were operating and maybe I'm just remembering this through rose tinted glasses,

but there just wasn't the same kind of senseless violence that affects the region today.

The students that lived in El Chucco, what many Mexicans called El Paso,

had a lot of respect and love for Juarez, for one big reason, the drinking age.

And a place where the drinking age was and is 21, we were like an hours drive away from a foreign country

where we could drink daquilla and corona until we passed out, and no one would bat in eyelid.

Getting over the border was a piece of cake too. I can't speak for today, but back then you could just park your car on the American side, walk over a bridge, pay the toll, and boom, you're in liquor heaven.

And now you understand why UTEP gets some of the highest application numbers in the country.

About the same time I was making my college applications, a buddy of mine went off to join the Marine Corps.

We hadn't seen each other for years, so when he got back from a deployment to the Gulf,

we organized for him to come down to El Paso for some much needed catching up.

Only he too had heard about the drinking age loophole and was insistent that we take advantage of it. Naturally, I agreed.

So we're over in Juarez getting hammered and jamming with this mariachi band and some dive bar, having the time of our lives. And somehow we get separated.

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