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THERE WAS NO DEBAUCH of drinking. Far from it. He found that he actually drank less.
Something had changed. Trying to analyze it, he came to the conclusion that his last drunk had put him on the bottom, at the very nadir of frustrated despair. Now, unless he put himself under the ground, the only way he could go was up.