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Language does this to our memories - simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like an photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was ment to capture.

He'd been diagnosed with diabetes a few years back and shouldn't have been drinking at any time. Instead he'd become a secret drinker. It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean.