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"There&amp;amp;#8217;s a lot of discussion about how to make this New Year&amp;amp;#8217;s the best ever (I&amp;amp;#8217;ll weigh in on this later today) but this morning, I want to hear the about the ghosts of bad New Year&amp;amp;#8217;s past. Read my experience after the jump. The first New Year&amp;amp;#8217;s I spent as a legal drinker was by far my worst. My ex and I broke up around Thanksgiving and I still wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t over him; I kept holding out hope that he&amp;amp;#8217;d ask me out to a romantic New Year&amp;amp;#8217;s dinner. He didn&amp;amp;#8217;t. My girlfriends persuaded me to head out to a huge party that was being held at a fancy hotel. A friend of a friend got us on &amp;amp;#8220;the list,&amp;amp;#8221; which was hardly a list at all. We still had to wait in line for 45 minutes but instead of paying the $150 cover, we scored the bargain price of $90 per person. When we finally got in, the place was so packed that I got separated from my friends. And when I did locate them, the music was so loud we had to shout at each other. There were fog machines everywhere; you could hardly see two feet in front of you and the whole place felt like a summer afternoon in Florida. At the stroke of midnight, I gulped down my Red Bull and Vodka (I know, I know, but I was only 21!) and watched lots of drunk randoms sloppily grope each other. Thankfully, the night was not a complete loss. My dear friend Ronida was having just as terrible a time as me and suggested we head out before the mass exodus at 2am. We stopped at a drive-thru burger joint on the way home and ate greasy hamburgers and fries in the car. I&amp;amp;#8217;d love to hear your stories of New Year&amp;amp;#8217;s that were not so happy. Did you get rained on while waiting in line at the club? Drive around the city for hours because you got lost? Get into a fight while at a party? Tips to make sure you have a better New Year&amp;amp;#8217;s Eve than I did at 21! * What will you wear? Can&amp;amp;#8217;t go wrong with a LBSD! * Joanna&amp;amp;#8217;s awesome idea for a super fun, low key night in. * If you sip too many drinks, check out these hangover cures! More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Jupiter Images. Image used for illustrative purposes only."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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