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We've hit the bottle hard and lost battle to stay sober

‘Minimum staggering distance’ is a phrase many Kenyans, men and women who love their tipple, use in reference to their drinking habits and the duration they spend in the pub.

As a person who saunters most of the time, I have never quite internalised the ‘staggering’ bit of their minimum distance, or even the ‘minimum’ bit of their staggering distance.

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