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[quote=Anonymous]Mine was a functional alcoholic, but she definitely needed it to function. I rarely saw her very drunk as a child (usually only at family gatherings, so it seemed like a special occasion thing), but from the preteen years onward, I noticed how many more bottles of wine and gin there were in the recycling than what I had seen on the dinner table. She wasn't abusive to us at that point, but it got worse as she aged, and in her later years, and she could be very nasty and verbally abusive. The difference was, I could cope with it better at 35 than I could have at 5 or 10 or 15. We didn't have much of a relationship by the time she died, somewhat prematurely, at 65. Her parents were also alcoholics, which was another thing I didn't really learn about until adulthood. [/quote]
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