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on the dry

temporarily refraining from drinking alcohol
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I bumped into an old mate of mine, Bill, the other day whom I was banged up with in 1972 in St Bernard's Hospital. He's on the dry now but he told me he has had several lapses since we left muttering that it was all going to be different tomorrow.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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