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WCDT 2922 to 2926 (23-27 March 2015)
Tova:
Just a note regarding Faye's Dad, just because I find this topic interesting... of course we have no evidence that he was alcoholic, but neither do we know the correctness of Faye's assertion that he only had one drink per week.
Edit: this possibility had already been mentioned, but I'll leave my support for this theory anyway.
Kugai:
There is that.
One drink a week is probably what she knew about, but that doesn't mean it was all he had.
explicit:
I liked it. HELLO EVERYBODY.
--- Quote from: Tova on 24 Mar 2015, 22:37 ---Just a note regarding Faye's Dad, just because I find this topic interesting... of course we have no evidence that he was alcoholic, but neither do we know the correctness of Faye's assertion that he only had one drink per week.
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Unreliable narrator, sure, but we have no reason not to trust her on that as of yet. I feel like if she didn't lie about her dad shooting himself she wouldn't lie about him drinking a bit more, but who knows.
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: explicit on 24 Mar 2015, 22:39 ---I liked it. HELLO EVERYBODY.
--- Quote from: Tova on 24 Mar 2015, 22:37 ---Just a note regarding Faye's Dad, just because I find this topic interesting... of course we have no evidence that he was alcoholic, but neither do we know the correctness of Faye's assertion that he only had one drink per week.
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Unreliable narrator, sure, but we have no reason not to trust her on that as of yet. I feel like if she didn't lie about her dad shooting himself she wouldn't lie about him drinking a bit more, but who knows.
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Lie, no, but she might not have known. If he snuck drinks at work, for instance.
Omega Entity:
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--- Quote from: TRVA123 on 24 Mar 2015, 19:55 ---We probably will never know much more than we currently know about Faye's dad's drinking. However, the fact that he drank in secret, coupled with Faye's own alcoholic tendencies, is very suggestive. I don't see why it should be just dismissed out of hand as an inconsequential thing.
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I'm not dismissing it out of hand. I just don't feel the evidence we have supports the theory that Faye's dad was an alcoholic. Since we're almost certainly not going to find out more evidence, all we know his he had one drink a week away from his wife who didn't approve of drinking. If he drank at other times that Faye didn't know about, maybe. But the evidence we have doesn't say he was hiding his drinking since it was an open secret with Faye. He was just hiding it from his wife.
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It's also possible that neither of her parents are, but that another close relative (a grandparent, for instance, since I don't think we've heard aunts or uncles mentioned) is. I know people who won't touch alcohol because of what they grew up with, or because they're concerned about genetics. It could be that Faye's mother just didn't want to be reminded of someone else's habit, or didn't want to see someone else go down the same road.
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My uncle was an alcoholic, or at the least a very heavy drinker. It's part of the reason why I only very rarely have a glass of wine, and didn't have my first (and only) buzz (unintentional!) until I was 29. I now know not to chug the leftover half a glass of wine after dinner, that I felt guilty about wasting since my employer at the time had paid for my meal.
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