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Candilaria's avatar

As the young folks say, my flabber is gasted. This was an amazing, if horrifyingly amusing, recount of what I'm sure was an embarrassing, to say the least, experience. I was tempted to read this much like I do horror films, through my fingers. Well done!

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Gene Nelson, Ph.D.'s avatar

As an adult child of two alcoholic parents, I chose to skim through this article instead of reading it carefully. The excerpts reminded me of pain-filled episodes as a child. I'm glad to be an adult who now employs the phrase, "No!"

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Candilaria's avatar

My pain-filled episodes from parents were as a child of two mentally-ill parents.

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