First marijuana at nine; first drunk

texture · childhood, age 9, B.S.

• When: age nine (first "duBois"); a few months later (first drunk)
• What: Gately smoked his first duBois at nine with three grade-school football players in a vacant cottage; his first real drunk followed on screwdrivers bought by an Orkin man in brownshirts/jackboots who lectured the kids about Zog and The Turner Diaries. Onset of the substance career.