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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watched last night.  Loved.  Really like the brother/sister dynamic and her budding romance, and loved the twist.  (Also couldn't believe she wouldn't have a section but figured tv was asking us to suspend our disbelief.)  Figured it out when the guy said a baby had been left at the fire station and then lit a cigarette, but had no idea before that.

[b]Tough thing for me to buy:  the birth dad is so well spoken and lovely, which seems odd for an addict who spent much of his life on the streets.[/b]  Will this part go another direction as well?  Maybe they'll tell us how he pulled himself up or something?  Sort of weird.
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I disagree. Real people have dimension. We still don't know what the father's background was before he started using. Plenty of people with "normal" lives end up as addicts.[/quote]

Absolutely.  Especially these days with addiction frequently stemming from prescriptions.  But in the 70s, drug addiction and life on the streets probably didn't affect educated adults that frequently, no?  I admit little understanding of the addictive drug culture before 80s coke, so I could be totally off base.  I'm just thinking that whatever killed the guy's mom and left his dad homeless wasn't your 70s pot/LSD.  Maybe I'm way off base.[/quote]

My brothers were teens in the 70's.  Everyone did a lot of drugs.  Some people graduated to harder core drugs as they became available.  My brothers had friends that became real coke addicts.  I think there were a lot of "nice" kids in the late '70s and early '80's that got addicted quickly without really realizing it could happen.  The character on the show said his mom was addicted to crack but I think the timing is off for that.  I don't think crack was a thing until the mid-80's and into the '90s.[/quote]

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