Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Reality or Dream PAD 4-3

 

The Things You Learn from Your Neighbors

 

I grew up in a non-drinking household.

Or so I thought.

When I was about twelve,

the boy next door told me my dad used to drink.

I never knew that.

I learned later that Dad not only drank

but all the way up till I was a toddler

and had given me a drink of beer and I liked it.

That was my last taste of alcohol

because I decided early on not to drink.

It seemed foreign to me that my sisters

remembered my dad drinking alcohol

and I didn’t know till my neighbor told me.

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