"I wasn't present for my son, Joel, when he was growing up. He'd ask me if I wanted to go to the park. 'No, let's stay home and watch TV,' I'd always say... I’d often black out."
"Alcohol was a problem for me from the age of 12. When I was in fifth grade, I felt like I didn't fit in. I eventually found my group in the kids who hung out at the back of the school and smoked cigarettes... We'd stand outside the liquor store and ask an adult to buy bottles for us."
"I was sober since 2021, thanks to a medicine that made my alcohol craving disappear, and I get to be present as a grandfather in a way I never was as a dad."
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