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I experience true joy more fully without alcohol

I cheers-ed with ginger ale at my wedding last week. If 25-year old Alexa heard that, she’d be falling out of her chair laughing.  Last Thursday, I cheers-ed with ginger ale at my beach ceremony in Costa Rica.   As I eliminated alcohol from my life, I tended to think of how I would deal with pain, grief, and disappointment without booze? And that was hard. It…