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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;masterswimmer, post: 3572917, member: 102022&quot;]Good that you beat the addiction. </p><p><br /></p><p>I never drank coffee until my senior year in undergraduate school. Thanksgiving break and I still hadn&#039;t completed my senior thesis. Due the day we returned from break meant I needed to pull some all nighters. After the second all nighter I was losing steam, fast. I&#039;d heard all these miraculous stories about the fabled coffee bean being the magic elixir for sleep deprivation. I decided to give it a shot. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not knowing anything about making coffee I did my best to brew a pot. Ok, the thing to note here is my reference to brewing a POT of java. I&#039;d never had so much as a cup of coffee in my life. I drank that entire pot solo. Six cups of coffee later and I was firing on all cylinders. </p><p><br /></p><p>I finished my thesis that night. The part of this story that turns success into unabated fear was the time after I completed my thesis. I wanted to crash, bad. Three successive all nighters and it was time to get some much needed shut eye. </p><p><br /></p><p>I laid in bed, on my back, eyes open as big as silver dollars, with my heart pumping about 700 mph. I thought for sure, at 20 y/o I was going to have a heart attack. My heart felt like it was going to explode in my chest. I&#039;d never felt that way before and vowed I&#039;d never feel that way again. </p><p><br /></p><p>That was the first and last cup/pot of coffee to ever pass these lips. </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh yeah, in case any of you were wondering, I did survive that fateful morning <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and that was 40 years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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