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how to stay sober on Thanksgiving

a very practical guide for all of us (but especially me)

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Paulina Pinsky
Nov 17, 2023
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came to realize i haven’t done Thanksgiving sober.

Christmas, obviously, will always be about sobriety— seeing as i was three days sober on Christmas 2021, my sober birthday will (hopefully) always be three days before Christmas. so i don’t think there’s any forgetting what it was like.

but Thanksgiving was always about chugging red wine and holding c…

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