Among the women, a spontaneous cheer went up, which Liz was surprised to find herself joining, and this was when {she was on her fifth drink} she realized both that she was completely drunk--not just tipsy, not merely buzzed--and also that she was much happier than she'd been an hour or two before. She felt a retroactive remorse for all the Eligible contestants she'd deemed trashy and idiotic from the comfort of her living room; apparently, like teriyaki pizza and bee venom facials, getting wasted on a reality-TV show was not to be knocked until tried.
( Curtis Sittenfeld )
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