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Hi everyone and welcome to the deliciously Ella podcast with me, Matthew Mills,

my wife and business partner, Ella Mills. Hi guys, so today we're talking about drinking. Why

are we drinking the social constructs that exist around it, that fear of being sober, the fear of

things like sober sex and sober dating, and then the rise of the T-toteler and one woman's brilliant

journey through alcohol addiction. Now I just have to make a quick note before anyone switches

off. This is not an episode aimed at making anybody give up drinking or becoming a T-totel

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