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  1. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the description of Drinking: A Love Story Saturday, August 1 2009.

    • A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape the realities of life and personal relationships, until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem. Reprint. 90,000 first printing."

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  2. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the contributors of Drinking: A Love Story Tuesday, July 21 2009.

      • reordered the contributors.
    • 1 : Caroline Knapp:
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  3. Peiyu W

    Peiyu W edited the quotations of Drinking: A Love Story Monday, July 20 2009.

    • Added a quotation: “I loved the rituals, the camaraderie of drinking with others, the warming, melting feelings of ease and courage it gave me. I loved the sounds of drink: the slide of a cork as it eased out of a wine bottle, the distinct glug-glug of booze pouring into a glass, the clatter of ice cubes in a tumbler
    • Added a quotation: “Recycling is a problem to the active alcoholic: you have to see all those bottles, heaped together in the recycling bin, and that can be a disconcerting image
    • Added a quotation: “alcohol the way you'd avoid running into an ex-lover at a restaurant. I once heard a woman say that as an alcoholic, a part of her will always be deeply attracted to alcohol, which seemed a very simple way of putting it, and very true
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  4. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the contributors of Drinking: A Love Story Monday, July 20 2009.

    • Added a contributor: Caroline Knapp: (Primary Author)
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  5. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the first sentence of Drinking: A Love Story Thursday, July 16 2009.

    • I DRANK.
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