Is There a Difference Between Love Substitutes and Pale Alternatives?

"There's this kind of constant desire to fill this emptiness, or to constantly prove yourself," he says. "I'm never chugging a beer again for the rest of my life." He was on both rugby and boxing teams in college; they were men and women training together. The first thought that came to his head when he got into the ring: I am drinking my alcohol at the pace that I want to drink it.