the alcoholic Daddy and the ten-year blackout
Some of the St. Columbkillers were saying it was the longest single blackout they’d ever heard of.
Context
The meeting's testimony at its most extreme: a newcomer who lost a decade to a single blackout and wears the disease across his face — the Flaw a hatchet put there when his alcoholic father, deep in the post-binge Horrors, needed a hidden jar found. It is the recovery room as the place the worst of it comes to be spoken aloud, the hereditary drinking and the terminal blackout laid on the podium as ordinary five-minute share.