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Article: New Year's Eve: The party's over.(SHOW)(ON THE EDGE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2005
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Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
I gave up New Year's Eve cold turkey in 2000 and haven't had one confetti-flecked moment of regret since. What's to miss? To me, New Year's Eve is the worst blind date, nightmare prom night and fit of magical thinking all rolled into one.
A hangover looms over New Year's Eve even before you've had your first swig of overpriced Asti Spumante that tastes like grape Fanta goosed with malt liquor.
This sense of malaise stems from believing you somehow must observe a trumped-up, ersatz holiday that benefits only the manufacturers of funny hats, headache remedies and those Elton John-like spectacles that ...