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The kid woke early and often. The father put some brandy in the bottle and hoped no one noticed. But my mom did it to me, he told his wife.

If he had listened to his mother, he would never have grown up to be an accountant. He would have been a good-for-nothing. Or in the ballet.

He looks at himself in the mirror and pinches his belly fat. He picks up the phone and calls his dad. Thanks for the violin lessons, he says

He was hungover and couldn’t stop yelling. Don’t take it out on them, she said softly. The kids need to know how much I resent them, he said