Are You Pleased When You Compare Yourself to Other Drinkers?

Does it make you think perhaps you’re not as bad after all?

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I’m reading a novel, Bright Burning Things, and the protagonist is an alcoholic woman with a four-year-old boy.

How could she drink three bottles of wine when she is solely responsible for little Tommy? And, Tommy was hungry and needed a…