When I was going to UC Berkeley I was pretty homesick and didn't really want to be there. Luckily I had a lot of cool friends, and we used to do a lot of drinking on the weekends. One weekend my friend Tina and I bought a half gallon of Ernest and Julio Gallo Rose wine and we planned to drink it all that night. But Tina chickened out and didn't have any, so I ended up drinking the whole bottle myself. About a half hour after I finished the bottle I started to feel really sick. I ran into the bathroom (which was the co-ed floor bathroom shared by 30 people) and started throwing up. In between throwing up I was yelling and screaming how I hated everyone and hated being there and wanted to go home. This went on for about two hours. When I was finally done throwing up I crawled into the shower with all my clothes on, sat down, and just stayed in there for another two hours. Eventually I went to bed and the next day I was my cheery self again.

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