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To: patton; Cathryn Crawford
I don't think I could ever be teetotal. One side of my family was teetotal for several generations, the other side has owned wineries for 500 years. As a result, I grew up with alcohol (wine almost exclusively, with a little cognac) available, but with the example of some family members who drank wine with meals and some who didn't. Those who did drink wine, were almost never noticeably high. My teetotal relatives took the view it was a choice, and my teetotal grandmother's comment was that if everyone drank the way my father's family did, no Christian could ever complain of it. It was the whiskey drunks and families ruined by demon rum she'd seen in the South and the rural West that had turned her dry.
24 posted on 01/03/2004 9:43:43 AM PST by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo [Gallia][Germania][Arabia] Esse Delendam --- Select One or More as needed)
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To: CatoRenasci
"Whisky drunks?" Uh-oh.
30 posted on 01/03/2004 9:49:08 AM PST by patton (I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
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