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Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.

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Neil Strauss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 13
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Music Journalist
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Chicago
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Neil Darrow Strauss
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