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“I had to honor my past.”

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Jen Deaderick
Jan 10, 2026
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I’m drinking a mulled cider at the first place I ever ordered a drink at a bar. I was 14 or 15. England wasn’t picky about these things back then. While waiting to order my cider, I watched someone else get carded and chuckled to myself.

That first time at the bar, I also ordered a cider. Unheated. It was the summer. I was running around Oxford with my …

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