the alcoholic Daddy and the ten-year blackout — "derived from his very own personal…"
derived from his very own personal hard-drinking alcoholic & chicken-farmer Daddy, in the grip of the post-binge Horrors and seeing subjective pests in a big way, one day, up and hitting Wayne at age nine smack in the face with a hatchet one time when Wayne couldn’t tell him where a certain Ball jar of distilled spirits had been hidden the day before, against the possibility of the Horrors.
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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.