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January 1 often feels like a clean slate, and for many people that means cutting out alcohol for the month. It's known as Dry January. NPR's Jaclyn Diaz looked into where this global phenomenon began.
JACLYN DIAZ, BYLINE: This time about nine years ago, Amanda Kuda says she had her last drink of alcohol. She had gone out on December 30, and it turned into a long night.
AMANDA KUDA: So I woke up on New Year's Eve with this ferocious hangover, and I said to myself, this is not the life that I want to live.
DIAZ: So the next day, she c
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