Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.

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He became the prince of the great-room, making its pleasures available to everyone he favored with his friendship (and making the unsupervised beer keg a bone of contention at family dinners all over the neighborhood).

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"The beer keg which may or may not contain a device has been left at the side of the road, a couple of hundred yards in front of the church, " he said.

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