Newton MA origins; the abandoning father, the drunk-driving grandfather

texture · UNDATED (backstory, pre-YDAU)

• When: UNDATED (biographical backdrop; the chart and the Ryle's talk are YDAU, but the family facts carry no stamps)
• What: Katherine Ann Gompert, of Newton MA, age 21, works data-clerical in a Wellesley Hills real-estate office and lives with her mother, with whom the relationship is strained (dinners she smokes to get through; a mother who "sometimes thinks she's hallucinating"). Per her drunken Ryle's account (scene 156): her father "emotionally abandoned" the family and moved to Portland, Oregon with his therapist, the break triggered when her mother found the therapist's photo in his wallet; her mother won't keep alcohol in the house, blaming it for her own father (Kate's grandfather) driving into concrete and wiping out his family.