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basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day. I started drinking when I was 13 and

everything changed when I was 13. I mean, I did everything. I did most of my drinking from 13 to about

21. And my drinking was unusual,

okay, because it wasn't like my friends. And I was, we were like the party people of the school.

You know, I couldn't fit in with the popular people. I couldn't fit in with the jocks or whatever. So it was the

partiers that I felt like I connect with. And that's, you know, that's was my life, was just going to

school, you know, hanging out with these people that I thought were my friends and getting completely

wasted, you know. And that's, you know, I got a fake ID when I was 17 years old,

and back then the IDs weren't like what they are today, so it was really easy to use some other blonde,

blue eye, whatever, you know, I just used her ID, and it was very easy to get into the bars you know and when

i was there the one thing that i did notice when i was about i don't know i think 17 is when the waitress

would come and ask me what i wanted to drink i would order it and then she would come and then i

would tell her i wanted two of what i want you drink. Because so, because I didn't want to wait by the time she got back.

I don't know if that makes any sense.

I just didn't want to wait for the second one.

You know what I mean?

So I had to have two at a time.

And no one else in my circle did that, you know.

And I was always the one that would wake up in some foreign place, you know, and I remember the time when I went to Jamaica

with some girlfriends at 17, 18 years old. And I remember waking up, I was in my dress,

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