“Three weddings in one summer and I didn't remember a single first dance.”
Drink and coke together. I didn't even think of it as a drug thing. It was just what you did to keep going till 4am at a wedding.
Then I read about cocaethylene. What your liver makes when you mix the two. Harder on your heart than either on its own. I'd had chest pains at two of those weddings and blamed the dancing.
I decided I'd stop the coke and cut the drink, not stop both.
I decided I'd stop the coke and cut the drink, not stop both. People said I'd never manage it, that one leads to the other. For me, the coke only ever came out after the fifth drink. So I stop at three. Every time. I tell the bride in advance. I bring my own lift home.
Ten months, no coke. I remember my best friend's first dance. She was dancing to Dancing in the Moonlight and I sang the whole thing.
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