Ye-eees. I mean there might be a genetic predisposition to that PARTICULAR addiction, at least when culture enabled drinking (thus the tendency to men)? Sure, maybe.
But the part where two of my grandmother’s brothers actively killed himself, as did one of her nephews, and the nephew never drank, and my mother was hospitalized for depression, and I swear one of my aunts has undiagnosed depression and my uncle definitely did, and then there’s me, and and and . . . it puts both the functional alcoholism of a couple other relatives and the other great-uncle “drinking himself to death” into a different kind of complexion, you know?
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Ye-eees. I mean there might be a genetic predisposition to that PARTICULAR addiction, at least when culture enabled drinking (thus the tendency to men)? Sure, maybe.
But the part where two of my grandmother’s brothers actively killed himself, as did one of her nephews, and the nephew never drank, and my mother was hospitalized for depression, and I swear one of my aunts has undiagnosed depression and my uncle definitely did, and then there’s me, and and and . . . it puts both the functional alcoholism of a couple other relatives and the other great-uncle “drinking himself to death” into a different kind of complexion, you know?