Sometimes Martha and Jimmy would do it, but occasionally I was selected, and my head would do little frightened flip-flops at the thought of spending a night alone with my strange grandmother. I would beg Barry to accompany me, and he would do so reluctantly.

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I referred to the periods of drinking as the dark days and the periods of sobriety as the sunny days. Many times Barry and I sought solace from the violence of our drunken parents by pretending we were the children of a man and woman whose faces we had cut out of a wig advertisement.

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Whey they sobered, the pain was still there, but they faced the daily drudgery of their lives stoically until the next alcoholic episode.

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