But things were different now. Friends said she was drinking too much alcohol.
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It might have been some young people studying, about to go into the monastery, and I think from the text one could definitely get that sense, because so much of the text deals with the things that they are about to give up - you know, lust and drinking and all the really incredibly good things in life that they're about to give up.
So beer drinking was one of the things that reminded the Sumerians that they were different from the people of the past who hadn't had any of the trappings of modern life.
Y. are urged to share the good things they have experienced after drinking XanGo, a tart, pulpy beverage made from the southeast Asian mangosteen fruit.