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Andrea Cleary: A toast to the ‘sober curious’ making their own way in our drinking culture
Those who choose to drink less, or not at all, illustrate that sobriety is less about giving something up and more about what you can gain in a society where alcohol still holds a lot of social power
On the tenth of March, it will be eight months since I last drank alcohol. I’m not an alcoholic – that’s important to say upfront. But as with a lot of people who grew up on this island of ours, my relationship with alcohol has been complicated by family, social conventions and, though it makes me feel 100 years old to say it, age.
I’d taken part in the various no-drinking challenges that have been ...
