RE: How I Won't Be Spending Valentines Day, a freewrite

Family drama, a topic you write about so well. I wish I could find one of those happy endings of yours for my story. Maybe. If the drinking stops. Two of the five of us have drinking at least under control. For now. I know the booze is a big part of our inability to be kind to one another. I wonder how far back the drinking goes, generationally. I had an uncle no one spoke to, also one of five siblings, and I've always wondered why. A good friend of mine from later in life was a good friend of my Uncle Gus, and she said he never drank. I think he may have had to leave the family to protect himself from the alcoholism, just as it seems I may be doing the same.