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Alcohol Abuse
“How much do I drink?” pondered Linda Withers as she took another sip of Foster’s lager served, as usual, in an oversized wine glass in the lounge bar of her local pub, the Rose and Crown. “Well, I don’t fall over every day,” she laughs. “But I admit we are a boozy lot.”
The Independent, Oct. 17, 2007.
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