How to Write a “Dear Alcohol” Letter
The purpose of releasing this episode at the end of the year is because writing a letter to alcohol is a great ritual to end 2023, no matter where you are on this journey to alcohol freedom.
A “Dear Alcohol” letter helps you reflect on your relationship with alcohol to gain more clarity on your life moving forward alcohol-free.
I’ve written several “Dear Alcohol” letters over the course of my 10 years of sobriety, and each one has given me further insight into my thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about alcohol.
In this episode, you will hear:
The origin story of a “Dear Alcohol” letter-writing practice
An overview of the main benefits of this practice
How to decide if writing a letter to alcohol is a good idea for you right now
My most recent “Dear Alcohol” letter - I read my letter to give you inspiration and ideas to help you get started
What to do after you write your letter - do you toss it or keep it forever?
Ultimately, a “Dear Alcohol” letter is about storytelling, and your story matters.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Exploring Your Relationship with Alcohol and Why It Matters episode
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[00:00:00] A Dear Alcohol letter is based on an old time concept dating back to 1943. A Dear John letter, and that is a written message, usually from a romantic partner, meant to end a relationship. Dear is used to soften the blow. Today, we're talking about how to write a deer alcohol letter, and this is not a letter of hate.
[00:00:20] This is not a letter of love. This is a letter that comes from your true and honest feelings about your relationship with alcohol. We have it met. I'm Lori Massicot, the Midlife Sobriety Coach and founder of Team Alcohol Free, an online community for women 35 and over. You're new to the podcast. Hello, my new friend.
[00:00:39] We have been talking about living an alcohol-free lifestyle since 2018 on the podcast. I got sober, which you will hear about in today's episode in 2013, I just celebrated 10 years of sobriety in August, and I stopped drinking at 45, which you'll hear a little bit more about today as well. If [00:01:00] you're returning back to the podcast, hi, my friend, I am so happy that you are here.
[00:01:03] I want to let you know is we are heading into 2024. My 12-week private coaching package, it is all about Plan A, will open for enrollment in January. If you've been on the fence about going alcohol free and you are tired of the back and forth of drinking and you are ready to go all in on your relationship with yourself and what you want more out of life than the empty promises that our dear alcohol gives you.
[00:01:28] I'm going to help you to get to the place where you want to be and stay there. I cannot emphasize enough, anyone who asks, what did you do to get and stay sober? I went all in. I went all in on what I wanted more than drinking. I made a choice to choose me. And for the past 10 years, I've learned that there is no better choice you will ever make, especially as you get older.
[00:01:50] You would like to set up a free discovery session and you hit 2024 running, please click the link below in the show notes. I have three spots open for this new package [00:02:00] and I'm going to work through it with you. I'm so excited to get this year started. Once you start in January, you set the tone for the rest of the year.
[00:02:08] So check it out in the show notes. In this episode, I will talk about the main benefit of writing a letter to alcohol. How to decide if this practice is for you and some simple tips to help you get started. And then what to do with your letter when you're done. I will also read my current deer alcohol letter, which I wrote for this episode and I have already shared it inside my TAF community because we just came together this morning to talk about creating this practice of dear alcohol.
[00:02:35] It's December 12th. And the purpose of releasing this episode at the end of the year and talking about this in December is because it's a really great ritual to end 2023, no matter where you are on this journey to alcohol freedom. It's a reflection and a reminder of this relationship with alcohol, and I'm going to talk more about the relationship stuff.
[00:02:55] A Dear Alcohol Letter is really about storytelling and your story [00:03:00] definitely matters. And once you sit down, you start writing some things out, I think you'll be surprised at how much you learn about yourself and how much you learn about what alcohol is doing for you or did for you and what you're looking forward to moving forward without alcohol, no matter if you are curious.
[00:03:15] So you're at this. Lace where you're just like I'm listening to sobriety podcast. I am here. I'm very interested in this topic I'm curious about what life will look like or you have been sober for 20 years this relationship that you've built with alcohol Whether it was 30 years in the making like mine or a few months.
[00:03:35] It is a relationship It's real. I recorded an episode about this. It's one of my most popular episodes, exploring your relationship with alcohol and why it matters, which I highly recommend listening to before you write your dear alcohol letter. And I'm going to link it in the show notes because I talk about the benefit of acknowledging alcohol as a relationship, no matter how silly this may sound or feel to you.
[00:03:57] Trust me, I get it. When you give yourself time [00:04:00] to acknowledge that the connection you've built with alcohol is just as a person in your life, you give yourself an opportunity to understand more about why you may feel sad, or you may miss alcohol, and it's okay to miss alcohol, it's okay to feel sad, and it's okay to say, alcohol was my longtime companion, and it helped me through so many different places in my life.
[00:04:24] I mean, I can honestly say to you, alcohol helped me through so much until it did. When you're giving yourself, let's say it's an opportunity. It's a gift. You can ease up on telling yourself that I've tried to stop drinking so many times. It shouldn't be this hard. I shouldn't feel this way about alcohol.
[00:04:42] I shouldn't miss it. I shouldn't feel like I'm grieving the loss of a beverage. I should not feel this way. Like all of that, you stop telling yourself that. And if you can get yourself there and I know that you can, you gotta be ready for this kind of stuff though. I'm not wishing this on you. So make sure that you check in with yourself and remind yourself that [00:05:00] you don't have to do this.
[00:05:00] Is this something that would be beneficial to me to maybe work through some thoughts and feelings? Start always at that place. And go into it with realizing that you can give yourself that chance to ease up on pressuring yourself and putting yourself down if you're just not there yet. You're just not getting the sobriety thing that going alcohol free is so much easier for everybody else.
[00:05:21] I'm just not getting it. It's just me because that only sends you back to drinking. So if you can go into this with, I am human. I am learning more about myself, we're never too old to learn more about ourselves, then you can give yourself a break from alcohol and from yourself and all of your expectations that come with getting sober.
[00:05:40] It's hard stuff. If I had written a dear alcohol letter back on August 11, 2013 when I quit drinking, I didn't because I didn't know of this practice. I can only imagine it would sound a little like this. Dear Alcohol, I've known you since I was 14. I think you are the [00:06:00] reason that I feel so bad about myself, but I'm not sure.
[00:06:04] I'm willing to take this road less traveled without you to find out because I am so tired of feeling so bad about myself and so bad in general. I am going to miss you. I don't know what I'm going to do without you. I'll miss everything about you. But I can't risk missing out on my life and living my life and being present in my life and remembering my life any longer because of you.
[00:06:34] That's what it would sound like. Your friend Laurie. My relationship with alcohol from the age of 14 to 45 was my ride or die. After I quit drinking, I felt flat. I was really pissed. Wasn't sure who I was pissed at. I was sad. I felt like I had been left, like I had been by so many jerky boyfriends in the past.
[00:06:55] I would see my dear alcohol, Chardonnay or Champagne in the [00:07:00] hands of others and think they have such a healthy relationship with alcohol. It's just me. I'm the only one who has to be without it. I miss it so much. Alcohol was no longer my soulmate, but it still was there. It was still there as a reminder that other people could have it.
[00:07:16] It was just simply me because I was looking at it as Deprivation, and I believe, and especially in my experience, that is totally normal. You are definitely not alone if you feel this way, and it took me a lot of time to work through it to feel and see the bonuses that I was adding to my life. The perks, I like to say, instead of what I was missing out on.
[00:07:40] I walked around for the first few months of my sobriety into a year feeling left behind. Feeling like I was on the ounce and that is because I put so much of my trust and I had such a strong identity and belief system in place when it came to the power of alcohol. I wasn't Lori Michelle Ivey Massacott.
[00:07:57] I was a drinker. Party girl. That's what [00:08:00] I was known for. Alcohol was the be all end all in my life. Everything I did involved drinking. We do not know what anyone else is going through when it comes to this bond with alcohol. Alcohol is an addictive substance used by midlife women all over the world to cope with stress.
[00:08:16] Emotions feel sexier and more confident to bond with people to keep all the balls in the air to enhance relationships in their lives. Women who were introduced to alcohol as a teenager and 100 percent that belief that alcohol is okay to drink, it's what they do. And we're all at this point in life.
[00:08:36] It's such a great advantage to be at this stage of midlife because we're not only questioning our relationship with alcohol, we're starting to question everything. One of the things that came up during this meeting and It was such a great point. We were talking about looking at it as a relationship because it's not something that comes natural.
[00:08:52] It's not something that we do right away. But as you start to grow into more of the relationship with yourself and you start to look at what I value and where [00:09:00] am I aligned to those values? Where am I aligned to the right people in my life who actually inspire me to be better? Do better, show up as my best self for myself.
[00:09:11] I feel like we could look at that and say, what are those relationships in my life that don't make me feel better about myself? And is alcohol one of them? That's a great way to pinpoint it as if you are, what do they say? The sum of the five people you hang around with the most. Is alcohol a person you want to be hanging around with the most?
[00:09:29] Is alcohol bringing out best in you? It's not any, that's not a question that I expect everybody to answer. No, it's not. That's a question I want you to get honest with yourself about and answer it truthfully to yourself. Is it making you feel like you are the best version of yourself and if the answer is yes, I totally get it.
[00:09:49] I'm going to read my latest Dear Alcohol letter to you. I've written quite a few of these letters over the years and this is one that I realized when I was writing it, I [00:10:00] actually had an epiphany. So again, that's a benefit of writing this out. You never know what's going to come up if you just allow yourself just to write and not overthink it.
[00:10:08] So this letter I'm about to read to you, I do want to say this before I start, I journal almost daily. And I write a lot, I write in both a very deep and dramatic way and also in a light and playful way depending on how I feel. I go very deep with my journals and I can't say that I used to do that in fear of like somebody's going to read it.
[00:10:30] I could open that probably about a year or two in. This letter I'm about to read to you is on the deep and dramatic side and it is something that I never thought I would share with thousands of folks who listen to this podcast monthly. I trust you in sharing this with you. If I didn't, I wouldn't share it.
[00:10:44] It's a very personal practice to me. So let me pull this Dear Alcohol letter up and get started. Dear Alcohol, It's been a while since you and I were together. 3, 775 days to be exact. This letter is a reflection of our [00:11:00] time together, sprinkled with gratitude for your part in my life that has brought me to where I am today.
[00:11:06] When you and I were introduced, I was a shy 14 year old girl trying to make new friends in high school. What I forget to acknowledge is the fact that I had been introduced to you before this time. My dad was a Budweiser drinker, but I don't remember him ever drinking a lot. Normally, he would drink while watching the Rams game and maybe at Christmas with my uncles.
[00:11:25] He gave me sips of beer every now and then, but the taste of beer as a kid was disgusting. In middle school, probably around 12 or 13, my old pal Suzanne snuck some of the hard stuff out of her parents liquor cabinet and we took sips one day while walking to the park. I hated your taste, but I do remember feeling funny and having fun with my friend.
[00:11:45] At this age you left a positive impression in my life, but I wasn't hooked. Going back to being 14 shy and trying to make new friends in high school, I had my first real taste of you in, I guess, the most grown up form, in my mind, pink champagne. I [00:12:00] loved everything about you. The taste, the warm feeling I had the minute you hit my lips and my belly.
[00:12:05] And the best thing about you was the fact that you allowed me to feel relaxed in a very short amount of time. Felt safe with you. It felt like I came alive and I met a different version of myself after drinking you. The version of myself that was like all the other girls around me, confident. Not shy and breaking out in hives every time someone glanced my way.
[00:12:25] Throughout my teens and 20s, I became known as the party girl, old time Lori, you became my BFF, my hype person, the one that always made me feel like I looked way better on the outside than I felt on the inside. I was led to believe that you are safe, safe to drink, safe to rely on in the moment and safe to use as a tool to manage my life, the rest of my life. I believed you were okay because it was normal to drink you. In hindsight, I think about the old saying, and I can actually hear my mom saying it, if everyone was jumping off a cliff, Lori Michelle, would you jump too?[00:13:00]
[00:13:00] And the answer would be hell no. When I was 29, I didn't want to go out one Saturday night, February 22nd, 1997 to be exact, with my friends. They were bugging me to come out. I was having a pity party inside my small one bedroom apartment in Belmont Shore, California. I felt sorry for myself because I didn't have a boyfriend and I wanted to stay home and drink by myself.
[00:13:20] Long story short, Melissa and Stacy begged me to come and meet them at Tracy's, a bar that was about 20 minutes away. And I finally said, yes, at 9 30, I drove myself to this bar and met my friends. And then I saw in the middle of the bar, a very tall gentleman, Bill Massacott, standing there and the rest is history.
[00:13:39] Bill and I instantly connected over our love of partying. We spent two years having fun, taking trips, partying during the week, the weekends, and our wedding weekend in Santa Barbara in 1999. I was 33 when we welcomed our boy, Spence, into the world. It was May 12th, 2001. And the next day was Mother's Day. I hadn't had a drink since August of 2000, well, except for my baby [00:14:00] shower, when I begged my mom to give me a couple sips of champagne because I was so nervous to be the center of attention.
[00:14:06] This time, I had thoughts of being a mom and drinking. I didn't think it was a good idea, and I had gone almost 8 months ish without drinking. Should I continue? Those thoughts ended the second I heard the cork pop on the champagne that first Mother's Day. After that, our relationship So Katari, my thirties were spent working in a career that made me very anxious, buying a house, then involved in almost three hour commute daily and being a mom and wife.
[00:14:32] In my twenties, I could drink, I could work full time and I could rally. But in my thirties, the rallying wasn't as easy. Didn't matter how much of you I drank or didn't drink. You were making me feel worse on the inside. And I was getting to the stage in our relationship that no amount of you made me look better on the outside.
[00:14:50] I was unhappy with myself. My drinking patterns turned from partying and fun, Lori, to avoiding reality and being sad and really mad, Lori. As I approached 40, I [00:15:00] was the heaviest I had been, both mentally and physically. I wasn't feeling well, and I couldn't figure out why. I was laid off from my 20 year career, couldn't find another job, felt like all of the things I had worried years about were coming true.
[00:15:12] I remember turning 40 and thinking, this is normal. I'm old now. I'm so screwed. Might as well drink up and drink more because the amount you normally would drink where you felt safe and you felt better, you looked better, isn't even scratching the surface. At 42, I got the call that I had dreaded since I was 11 and my dad died.
[00:15:33] The call was from my mom, sweet Carol Jean, and she said three words that would change my life forever. I have cancer. Even though I stayed positive that she would fight it and win, I turned to you for safety and comfort to help me through the next seven months. I would drink you after each doctor's appointment, treatment, results call, scan, and surgery.
[00:15:52] I drink a lot of you during her final moments, literally by her deathbed. No amount of you made me feel safe during this time, and no amount of [00:16:00] you took away the fear of losing her, but I kept on drinking. After my mom passed on December 7th, 2009, our relationship escalated, and for the next four ish years, I would learn that I was in perimenopause, which is why I wasn't feeling well at 40.
[00:16:13] I was managing the grieving process with you by my side, hence not grieving at all, but avoiding it. And I was working night and day on building a business for the first time in my life. Someone in my family around 2011 planted the seed that my identity was no longer a party girl, but maybe an alcoholic.
[00:16:31] After that seed was planted, I set out on a mission to prove him wrong, and to prove to myself that I am somebody who can drink normally. I tried to moderate, I tried to drink like a normal person, only red, not white, only on Saturday, not Sunday, my favorite drinking day. The list of rules went on and on, and were very rarely followed.
[00:16:49] The truth was, and still is, if there is such a thing as a normal drinker, I have no desire to be one. There were several rock bottoms throughout my drinking, even though I wasn't acknowledging them as [00:17:00] that. I was going along with everyone drinks, this is what I do, and it's okay. In my early to mid 40s, the bottoms were at the lowest of the low, waking up with no idea of the mean things that I said in front of my son to my husband, screaming at good, good friends who I love so much for no reason, and the most bottom of them all, facing myself in the mirror after a night of drinking.
[00:17:20] The bottom finally fell out on August 11th, 2013. I was home alone, a couple of glasses and to my first bottle of Chardonnay, and I heard a voice say, Lori, you've had enough. I always thought the voice was talking about alcohol until I started to write this letter. And it was, but it's more than that. What the voice was also referring to was you've had enough of disappointing yourself repeatedly.
[00:17:43] You've had enough sleepless nights worried about your drinking and not drinking. You've had enough brownouts and blackouts that continuously wipe out your memories. You've had enough of the drama and chaos that comes with your drinking. And you've had enough of spending your precious time, your one precious life believing that [00:18:00] alcohol made you feel safe.
[00:18:02] Now it's your turn to feel safe within yourself, not the bottle. I'm so grateful for this voice I heard, whether it was my future self, or God, or my mom, or my dad. It was so strong and so loud that it brought me to the point of meeting myself where I was, with all of the excuses and justifications about my drinking and my relationship with you.
[00:18:19] And I finally said to myself, it's time to cut the bullshit. I know that you and me, dear alcohol, were no longer vibing, and no matter how little of you I tried to drink, we would never vibe as high as I desired to be. My future would be wrapped up in you as it was for the past 30 years, and it wasn't acceptable for me anymore.
[00:18:37] I'd put you so far up on the pedestal that there was no room for me, and if I continued to drink, I would fall further and further down the black hole of regret and self punishment. I decided to end the relationship on this one basic night in August, after I heard the I managed to pull myself off the couch to the sink and pour the two bottles of you I had down the drain.
[00:18:55] I'm grateful for me that night. Scared, uncertain of me being a [00:19:00] sober woman in a world that drinks, and 100 percent doubtful that I would ever be able to not only quit drinking but stay sober and be fun, have fun, and enjoy life. In the past 10 years, I've proved myself wrong. I've changed my life for the better.
[00:19:13] I have fun. I'm more fun. And there is never a doubt in my mind. It is because of our breakup. I've done things that I never would have done if you were an option in my life. Because. There were only one option. The night I stopped drinking was the night I closed the door on the one option and I opened the door to so many other options and possibilities, ones that I could have only dreamed of, like the work that I do today.
[00:19:37] Today, even though it's been 3, 775 days. Without you, I'm very much still in your presence daily as I listen to stories about your relationship with other women just like me who are in the same place I was for decades. I'm grateful to you for being the reason that connects me to so many smart, determined and badass women from all over the world.
[00:19:58] I'm grateful for the [00:20:00] validation that I needed when I quit drinking and have received over and over again through the hundreds of women I have worked with in the past six years. I'm not alone in my choice to not be in a relationship with you. We all have a choice and the ones that choose themselves over you will forever be one of my greatest joys to witness.
[00:20:17] I don't bad mouth you alcohol, that often, I don't give you the satisfaction of being anything other than what you are, a toxic liquid. You changed me at a very young age and I believed I was safe with you. Today I have found my safe place within myself. I'm a hundred percent myself without you and I'm learning after 3, 775 days to forgive myself.
[00:20:40] And let go of the regrets I have for my drinking with gratitude for you and how far you have made it possible for me to come. In the end, without you, I wouldn't have met Bill, there would be no Spence, or Beatrice, and there would be no complete and utter joy in my daily life and [00:21:00] work. I'm grateful for you, till next time, peace.
[00:21:04] That's it. That's the ending. Oh, there we go. Again, please keep in mind this letter has taken so many different forms over the course of 10 years. I never know what I'm going to write until I sit down and start writing. This one is longer than even I thought, and it was very cathartic in writing. I feel like I needed it, and I feel like it was something that I could have done at the 10 year mark for me, and I'm glad that I'm doing it before I step into 2024.
[00:21:31] It is this reminder because I always tell my groups and everybody that I work with, we all come together and you here, we're coming together because of alcohol. And I will never discount the gratitude that I feel around that, but I didn't feel that way in the beginning. So just keep that in mind that our relationship with ourselves evolves and so does the one with alcohol.
[00:21:52] So how do you know if you are ready to take this practice on? Ask yourself, is this going to be something that is going to be [00:22:00] beneficial for me where I am today? Is this going to be something that makes me really sad? Maybe. negative towards myself. Always check in with yourself first, go into it with compassion, go into it with curiosity.
[00:22:12] And if you feel like you're holding on to this relationship or you've never acknowledged it as a relationship and you're ready to let it go. You're ready to loosen the reins a little bit, take a chance on yourself with this and sit down. I'm going to give you a few tips in just a second here and write it out and see what happens.
[00:22:29] If you've been sober for a while and have never done this, it's a great way to remind yourself of why you've chosen to stop drinking and can help you to get to know this relationship a little bit better if you are curious. And if you're someone who is not sure this practice will be beneficial to you, just save it for later.
[00:22:43] You always have a choice. A dear alcohol letter is not a requirement to getting sober. So tips to get started. Number one, start off with the expectation that things may come up you weren't expecting and that this letter is a tool to learn more, not a tool to use to judge yourself or to feel bad about [00:23:00] yourself.
[00:23:00] You are human, the only human in this relationship. Number two, Make it special for yourself. Light a candle, get a cozy blanket, and your favorite N. A. beverage, and plan something for yourself when you're done with writing it. A walk, a nap, a massage, a bath, maybe a conversation. Whatever makes you feel loved and safe.
[00:23:20] Number three, grab a piece of paper or you can start a brand new journal. It's a writing journal, maybe going into 2024, whatever year you're listening to this in, or you can write it out on a post it note. That's how simple you can make it. Number four, don't overthink it. Set a timer for five minutes. If that helps you to start and see what comes out, no one will read this but you.
[00:23:40] And to really get started, number five, set down with yourself and just start with your alcohol. I met you when, and take it from there, or you can have a name for alcohol. We just got into this conversation during our meeting, and one of the gals shared a really helpful tip that she started to look at it as that [00:24:00] character, that wine witch, and she put a name on the wine witch, and she drew the wine witch, so she had a visualization of it.
[00:24:08] That's a great idea, especially if you're somebody who likes to visualize something. Maybe it's a celebrity you don't like. Maybe it's somebody you don't like, or maybe you can just draw it and come up with a fictional character, but it's helpful. Your letter can be a few sentences or pages. You could stop in the middle and revisit it next year.
[00:24:26] You can write, dear alcohol, fuck off. You can blame alcohol. You can kick the poopoo out of alcohol. It's so much better than kicking the poo poo out of yourself if that's where you are. You can write a love letter to alcohol. You can write a gratitude letter to alcohol. Write about how your relationship has involved.
[00:24:43] Talk about why you drink and why you started drinking and highlight why you don't want to drink anymore. And talk about the vision for your future self, your alcohol free self. Tell your story. And when you're done, let's talk about this because this is also something that came up during this meeting, which I think is [00:25:00] really cool.
[00:25:01] Gal had said that she put one of her letters in a bottle and put it out to sea, a message in a bottle. So when you're done, when you go into this and you think, okay, nobody's going to see this. When I'm done with this, I'm going to maybe throw it in the fireplace. I'm going to shred it. Some other things that you can do with it, if you really want to keep it around as a reminder, you can frame it, you can laminate it, you can carry it with you, you can fold it up and stuff it in your bra every single day or under your mattress, let's see, you can do that laminating card and put it in your wallet, you can shred it in the shredder.
[00:25:34] Do what works for you always with everything in life. There is no right or wrong way to do it. Only your way and you get to decide. So let's recap a little bit. The Dear John letter is not about love or hate. It's about honest, true feelings and what is coming up for you to really help you ease up on the idea that you should be further along.
[00:25:52] I'm using my air quotes. You should be further along. We're having an easier time letting go of drinking. The ending of relationships are harder [00:26:00] to process than the thought of liquid. So if you look at it as, Hey, This is a relationship, this is a connection that I have built, and maybe I can give myself a little bit of grace here, the reason why I'm having a hard time with this, you are not alone in wanting and needing to leave this relationship behind, so important for me to continually tell you this.
[00:26:20] This letter is about your truth your thoughts and your feelings about alcohol will evolve over time and I know the shame I know the regrets I know the cringeworthy moments the feeling of safety and comfort that you get from drinking and I also know 100 percent I believe that you can find that safety and that comfort within yourself in time and more patience and love toward yourself moving forward In the end, A Dear Alcohol Letter is about storytelling and your story matters.
[00:26:47] It's documentation that this bond existed and now you are forming a better, stronger, deeper bond and connection with yourself. So alcohol cannot seep into the cracks. I'm proud of you for listening to this episode [00:27:00] today and I am with you. I'm putting up both of my peace signs. If you are ready to make 2024 your year of going all in on an alcohol-free lifestyle, you want to create a plan A and you feel like you can benefit from having me as your ride or die, click the link in the show notes to schedule your complimentary discovery session in January.
[00:27:18] I'll see you next week as we kick off a new year together. I will talk about my word of the year for 2024, recap a bit of 2023. And help you create a vision and an intention for the next 12 months, because we got a fresh slate here, gals. Let's get on it. And Happy New Year to you, my friend. Take care of yourself this New Year's.
[00:27:35] Peace.[00:28:00]
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