"He was asking what he could do, now that I knew would change all our lives, but i was afraid to ask for it. Just thinking about saying the words out loud made me nervous. Dad saw my hesitation. He knelt so that he was looking up at me. 'What is it?' he said. 'Ask away." "It's big." "Just ask, baby." "I'm scared." ... I took a deep breath and said, "Do you think you could maybe stop drinking?"
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