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Alcohol has always been a part of my life.

As a very young girl I can remember seeing a cocktail glass with some kind of amber liquor

that I thought was just so pretty and you know it makes that tinkly tink sound when the ice cubes hit the glass.

But I can remember as a very young girl

alcohol was how you had fun. My mom and dad always drank. Their friends always drank. We were allowed to have wine with dinner occasionally,

just a sip here and there.

And I can remember taking beers to my dad,

you know, and I always thought it was so funny to shake up the beer,

give it to my dad. He didn't really think that was funny. My first drink was probably when I was, you know, a little girl, three, four years old,

probably the same age as my oldest daughter now. I mean, it wasn't an alcoholic drink. It just you know dad given me a sip but the first

time I drank alcoholically I had I think probably two bottles of cold duct to myself

I was 13 years old, I threw up, blacked out and passed out, and I could not wait to do it again the next weekend.

It got me out of myself.

For some reason, maybe being the child of an alcoholic myself,

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