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stillcool

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6. my father was an alcoholic..

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2020, 12:00 PM

Jul 2020

so were his brothers. He never told me why, but then he didn't tell me much of anything. He was in WWII, along with 4 of his brothers (PTSD), he was an Irish Catholic (Genetic), my mother died before I was a year old (Depression) Could be any of the above or none of the above.. it's not for me to say.

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