"Drinking can be done anytime," he opines, mainly because he had only drank alone when he had the option to. Plenty of the time, he had no choice but to wear his hat as low as possible and dress up in ways that couldn't be recognized if he wanted a drink.

"Of course, not for me, not back home," he admits, that damned truth spilling out. "But better to be sober and alive than well-drank and dead."