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 | | Highly alcoholic and distilled in backyard drums using home-grown fruit, Bosnian brandy, or sljivovica as it is generally known around here, is much more than a drink to warm the soul on a cold Balkan night. |
 | | "Sljivovica is considered good when it has around 42 percent alcohol content," said the brothers' neighbour, Slobodan Aleksic, 60. |
 | | They drink it for good health, for the good of their souls, when they're happy or sad, during childbirth, at funerals, to celebrate success and forget failure, before and after meals, with their first coffees of the morning, to ease stress during work, to relax after work, at night to aid sleep... |
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