I'd always enjoyed alcohol but my mother's sudden, violent death made me a heavy drinker overnight'
Briefly

The suddenness of her death felt incomprehensible. Just one day after her 62nd birthday, my mum had died from an aortic dissection, a condition I had never heard of.
Grief descended like a storm. At first, I couldn't bear the pain, and neither could the rest of my family. My dad and I, in particular, turned to alcohol to numb the unbearable feeling of loss.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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