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First taste - late teens
- Context: A classmate introduces him to cheap wine.
- Drink: Port or muscatel (sweet, cheap fortified wine).
- Effect: Immediate sense of warmth and detachment from his daily misery. He feels freer, bolder, and suddenly "part of the human race" instead of outside it.
Drinking with school acquaintances
- Context: He starts hanging with other boys who drink in parks, alleys, or street corners.
- Drink: Cheap wine, sometimes beer.
- Effect: Laughing, telling stories, feeling a fragile sense of camaraderie - but the friendships are shallow and fade when the bottle is gone.
Alcohol as a social bridge to girls
- Context: Tries approaching girls after drinking; sometimes gets a little further physically than when sober.
- Drink: Beer or wine, whatever is available.
- Effect: Boost in confidence, but still awkward and clumsy. Encounters usually end in rejection or humiliation.
Skipping school to drink
- Context: He starts ditching classes just to drink with a few like-minded outcasts.
- Drink: Beer or wine.
- Effect: Starts to see drinking not as a treat but as a better use of his time than being in school.
First taste - late teens
- Context: A classmate introduces him to cheap wine.
- Drink: Port or muscatel (sweet, cheap fortified wine).
- Effect: Immediate sense of warmth and detachment from his daily misery. He feels freer, bolder, and suddenly "part of the human race" instead of outside it.
Drinking with school acquaintances
- Context: He starts hanging with other boys who drink in parks, alleys, or street corners.
- Drink: Cheap wine, sometimes beer.
- Effect: Laughing, telling stories, feeling a fragile sense of camaraderie - but the friendships are shallow and fade when the bottle is gone.
Alcohol as a social bridge to girls
- Context: Tries approaching girls after drinking; sometimes gets a little further physically than when sober.
- Drink: Beer or wine, whatever is available.
- Effect: Boost in confidence, but still awkward and clumsy. Encounters usually end in rejection or humiliation.
Skipping school to drink
- Context: He starts ditching classes just to drink with a few like-minded outcasts.
- Drink: Beer or wine.
- Effect: Starts to see drinking not as a treat but as a better use of his time than being in school.
