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Hi, I'm Anne Strange Champs. It's January, and the holidays are over. The giving season is done, and instead, it's time to give things up. January is the season of diets and treadmills and juice fasts, of extra push-ups and no dessert.

In fact, name, pleasure, and this month, somebody's probably going without it.

I'm John Orr, and I started practicing Dryanuary about 10 years ago.

This is my 10th Dr. January.

There's Drinuary, 31 days of forced sobriety.

Not a cocktail, not a glass of wine with dinner or anything like that, not a beer after a football game or anything.

There's also veganuary, no animal products for the month.

Today, on to the best of our knowledge, renunciation.

Giving up, going without abstaining, refraining, restraining.

Doesn't sound like much fun, does it?

The first week is the easiest, quite honestly, you're still coasting on the novelty of it.

By the third week of Drynuary, I'm so sick of club soda. I can't even stand it. So I got some cold days ahead. That's John Orr. He's not a big heavy drinker,

but he and his wife like wine with dinner

and cocktails with friends

and a beer after a game,

and it all adds up.

So 10 years ago, they dared themselves

to go cold turkey for a month.

And now, Drynywary is a tradition,

not just for them,

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