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JOI's thirteen facilities in three years

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in alcohol-rehabilitative facilities (13 of them over those final three years; Tavis has the Blue Cross statements right here)

Context

The father's drinking quantified by the paperwork it generated: thirteen rehab stays across the last three years of his life, documented to the Blue Cross statement. The revolving-door figure — thirteen facilities, none of them holding — is the failed-recovery counterweight to everything the program side of the theme is trying to build, and the source of the disease Hal and Orin carry.

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