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Re:Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middl... by bzbarsky on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @11:34AM (#10186288)
You have to keep in mind that in the time period in question beer or weak wine was what you drank when you were thirsty a lot of the time. Safe drinking water was hard to come by.
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