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If you thought that going sober meant signing up for a lifetime of tepid ginger ale, think again.

If you approach everything as if it has meaning — misspelled signs, toilet figurines, the differences between 7-Up and ginger ale — well, then it does.

"We didn't have milk for the cereal. And I'm not exaggerating, I used to use ginger ale for milk — that's how bad it was. So I had to go steal milk from the neighbors."

Holding a glass of ginger ale, Mr. Biden went on to toast “two great nations, two great friends, and two great powers.”

In the neighborhood, he was known for simple things he liked: cheese, onion crisps, Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate bars, Bell’s Whisky with a splash of ginger ale and the sport of cricket.