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In the 90s, women and alcohol were sworn enemies, rarely found together at the same table. It was an unwritten law, almost like a curse, to see a woman drinking alcohol.
Alcohol was reserved for men and for wayward, defiant, or rebellious women-those on whom society had given up. Any woman seen drinking alcohol was either a bartender or a person of irredeemable character.
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