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Byline: Meghan Daum
After-work cocktails, a bottle of wine Friday night, and weekend benders. For many women, drinking isn't just a release, it's a way of life.
To look at Avery* and the company she keeps is to catch a glint of the shiny surface of the female urban fantasy. All graduates of elite colleges, these women dash around in Prada and Louboutins, earn six-figure salaries at prestigious, high-profile jobs, and make a point of reading The New Yorker as well as tabloid gossip. Ambitious, attractive, and very thin, they range in age from their late 20s to their mid-30s, some married and some not; they live in exquisitely outfitted (if tiny) ...