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I'll start back a little bit.

I won't spend too much time talking about drinking. I did grow up in New Brunswick. I was born in New Brunswick. They give you a 24-hour

trip with your birth certificate. And I'm eating less, and they say good luck. We'll see you

in the meetings. It's not why I'm an alcoholic, but it doesn't look at a place there either, you know.

It's 14 years old.

Some buddies and I decided we wanted to find out what this whole drinking thing was about.

We were watching, our parents were watching friends, we were watching older brothers and they were doing

it and they seemed to be having a good time and was that, well, let's check it out it out you know very innocent and we ordered

for 14 and 15 year old boys ordered four cases of beer. We didn't know much about it. And my buddy stuffed his shoes. He was tallest and could speak in the deepest voice. And so he put some stuff in his shoes, so he's a little taller. We ordered her from the cab company and he

sure, well, he got the beer. You know, the cab he doesn't care. He just wants the money and

to get out of there. And we did our best, you know, I think we might have got through

one of the cases, maybe one and a half of the cases between all of us before we passed out.

And my buddy's older brother and his friends were actually the beneficiary of the rest of that.

But something absolutely magical happened to me that night.

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