Saying Farewell to My Binge Drinking Days

Another curse of aging revealed

And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man
A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad: LXII

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With age comes loss. I walk a little slower. Words get stuck on my tongue a little longer. My lustrous chestnut locks are growing grey and frizzed. These things are tolerable.