My First Social Weekend Without Alcohol Proved How Stupid I Am

It’s 11 p.m. Do you know where your dopamine is?

Jill Francis
6 min readAug 16, 2022

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Women sitting in fancy cocktail dresses and holding coupe glasses of pink champagne.
Photo by Inga Seliverstova

Who among us wants to face the world these days, much less without a slight buzz on? It’s not just the fact that the world is imploding. Over a year of quarantine has also left us out of practice with being among humans and a lot of us left our social skills in our old pair of…

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Jill Francis

American immigrant in Italy with too many degrees in Psychology. I write about everything I’m afraid of. jillfranciswrites@gmail.com