on no boys (or booze)

I won't mistake you for problems with me.- Tegan and Sara (I Won't be Left)
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I gave up booze, and boys.

I say, emphasizing the statement with a swig of bottled Fiji water.

You look at me skeptically.

Boys?

And booze,

I add.

So what instead?

You have a smile playing on your face.

Water,

I say.

And running.

Time to stop blaming you,

time to start changing me.