2. My grandmother remarried, unfortunately to an alcoholic. My father's job, at the age of 13 or 14, was to drive him to the pub at night and wait for him to get plastered before driving him home. This was the father of my half-aunt.
The family, after kicking the man out, struggled, and my gran worked as a cashier in a shop. But she could not look after the young one as well. My father apparently loved his sister, and must have been distraught when a distant part of the family adopted her.
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