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But there was always the curious mental phenomenon
that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably
ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first
drink.



Yeah the reason is trivial in that someone on xpt mentioned it to you. You remember those good times. Those happy times when you first started drinking. It wasn't always out of control and of course this time it won't be. Not whatsoever. You know more about it now, and won't go down that path again. Just one tumbler of Makers Mark, Charin, and all those good times will wash over you again like a warm flood.