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Does meaning change if I use "to" instead of "into"? Please tell me the difference.

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Rebecca

The word "into" here means that the coffee drinking started at midnight and lasted until sometime in the period of the morning. If you change the sentence to "midnight to morning coffee", this doesn't change the overall meaning, but it can imply that the coffee drinking stopped right in the morning, while "into" implies that there wasn't an abrupt stop in the morning, and it could have lasted longer than the morning.

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