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1  Usually I just drink some orange juice.
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2  "Have just one more drink," I told him.
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3  So all I did was, I ordered another drink.
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4  There wasn't anything to do except smoke and drink.
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5  The blonde one, old Bernice, was drinking bourbon and water.
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6  I can drink all night and not even show it, if I'm in the mood.
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7  I told him to ask old Valencia if she'd care to join me for a drink.
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8  The one ugly one, Laverne, kept kidding me because I was only drinking Cokes.
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9  For one thing, they kept drinking tea or some goddam thing all through the play.
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10  I ordered a Scotch and soda, which is my favorite drink, next to frozen Daiquiris.
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11  You could see they were being careful as hell not to drink up the minimum too fast.
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12  What I did do, though, I told the waiter to ask old Ernie if he'd care to join me for a drink.
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13  All of a sudden, when they finished their drink, all three of them stood up on me and said they had to get to bed.
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14  There were even more upstairs, with deer inside them drinking at water holes, and birds flying south for the winter.
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15  When she was finished, she beat it out of the room so fast I didn't even get a chance to invite her to join me for a drink, so I called the headwaiter over.
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16  The more I thought about my gloves and my yellowness, the more depressed I got, and I decided, while I was walking and all, to stop off and have a drink somewhere.
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17  You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket.
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