"My family....is....pocked with drunks. Every generation. Drunks!
More
than half of each generation. I'm not one of them.
But I have been
murdered by them.
None of the family cares about that. They support them telling me to
do what they want, demanding to know how I can refuse, how I can
believe they should be responsible."
Words had begun to rush from me.
I cut them off.
This was all wrong; coarse, disconnected babblings
Adonie could never decipher.
But there was a softly waiting quiet I could not withstand.
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