Sarah Heppola finds that quitting alcohol for the holidays isn't as difficult as it seems:
The peer pressure you think will exist if you stop drinking? It really doesn’t. What you realize is that most people don’t care. They can’t tell whether that glass of sparkling water with lime is actually a vodka tonic or whether your Diet Coke has rum in it. People who do pay attention to what’s in your glass are generally people with alcohol issues.
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