the grandfather who drove into concrete
My mom won’t even have it in the house. She said it’s what made her father drive into concrete and wipe out his entire family.
Context
The inheritance stated in passing and waved off in the same breath: a grandfather's drunk-driving annihilation of his whole family, a mother's total prohibition, and a daughter so tired of the warning that she is disproving it, glass in hand, as she recites it. The family's disease runs on schedule down the generations, and its latest carrier can name the fatal precedent while walking straight into it.