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Learning to Connect With Friends — Without Alcohol (www.nytimes.com)
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By the time the entrees came, we’d reached the end of these “so what else is new” updates. I recognized that we were at a threshold — one I had been unable to cross so far without booze.

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[-] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

We've created an environment where our option is a binary drink, not drink. Non drinkers are treated with suspicion. People who use other drugs are stigmatised. Little wonder sober socialising is problematic.

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