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i havent read this whole thing but i'll tell a story

i had once a gilfriend whose dad was a drunk. i mean a real drunk. he would come home from work & start chugging beers & getting mean until it was time to go to sleep. he watched a lot of sports on tv.

he held a union job for something like 20 years, raised 6 or 7 children (the gf was the last one), put all of them through college, and paid his mortgage. i understand that he never missed a day of work.

still, he was an alkie, he created a dysfunctional aura around him, and managed to pass that habit along to 1/2 of his children (including the girlfriend, ha hah-- but i won't tell that part of the story here).