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So off I go to the liquor store and carefully avoid eye-contact with the busker who seems to know that if I can afford the exorbitant prices they charge, I can afford to give him a little bit of my pension.

I reach the till with my purchase only to be asked if I would like to donate a dollar for Dry Grad. This is just February. When do students graduate these days?

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Bob Beckwith

Victoria