And These Hands Still Wash Clean

[scotopotomas]

Perhaps now I have lived a little, experienced a bit, learned a thing or two, though it is not as important as I thought it would be. What I had spent so long avoiding and denouncing, seemed to be nothing special, just another misbegotten adventure. To drink or not to drink, what once required my constant vigilance is now so little to me, and I

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[kittyvulpix]

I felt very similarly the first time I actually drank. It seemed so uneventful when compared to all of the stories I had heard.

Its like when you're a little kid and you've never stayed up for Christmas or New Year's Eve... but you hear all of the stories about what happens when midnight comes... so you expect so much... and when you actually stay up there is nothing worth talking about and you wonder why you lost so much sleep when Santa was never coming and fireworks weren't going to magically appear in the sky.