My Husband Made Me Drink the Same Vodka With Him Every Night for 40 Years. One Night, I Refused—and He Became Furious. The Next Day, I Took What Was Left in My Glass to a Lab. The Doctor Looked at the Results, Turned Pale

the table. 

One in front of himself.

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And one in front of me.

“To us,” he would always say.

I had never really liked alcohol.

In fact, during the first years of our marriage, I often told him,

“George, I don’t want any.”

But he would always give me the same answer.

“Just a little, Margaret.  Drink with me.”

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Sometimes he even smiled when he said it. So I  drank. Years passed, and that strange little ritual became part of our lives.

Even our children joked about it.

“Mom and Dad have their evening tradition.”

I laughed with them.

Until one evening. I had been feeling tired that day. Not sick. Just exhausted. George brought out the glasses as usual.

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I pushed mine away.

“I don’t want any tonight.”

He froze. At first, I actually laughed.

“George, what’s wrong?”

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