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Some people drink to remember, some people drink to forget.

We do a little of both, I think. We start out the night drinking to remember the little girl who was killed, or the woman who was raped. Then when it gets to be too much, we drink to forget what had happened to these innocent people that did nothing wrong.

Eventually, we get really toasted, and then we can talk about anything. Everybody can be completely open, because we know we won't remember it the next day. We won't remember what happened. We won't remember what we said. In that place, everyone is just...content. Just content to sit there and do nothing. Nothing but drink and talk.

And then, in the morning, it's a total blackout. It's a bit like amnesia. You don't know what you did. But you don't really care.

It's sometimes nice to just black out.