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Once I stopped drinking and I'd be going out on dates, or hanging out with guys, I'd realize, Oh, maybe I don't like them that much! I think the drinking was to make these guys more tolerable.

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Alison Rosen
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 11
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Oakland
California
Alison Michelle Rosen
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