At the pub, while other people received interesting glasses, Davies found himself with dark cola or an apologetic mocktail. Alcohol is not only ethanol. It is bottle, cork, temperature, aroma, theatre, generosity and permission to linger. Remove it and, historically, too much of the ceremony vanished too.
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