Alcohol Involvement

I come from a family with a history of “alcohol involvement.” Since I’ve been taught not to take anyone’s inventory but my own, I’ll just report the events as I know them. My paternal grandparents were small time neighborhood bootleggers during Prohibition; my grandfather drank heavily, as did my father. When we were young kids, my Dad worked – conveniently – for a Chicago brewery, until the brewery closed in the early 1970s. I was exposed to booze while very young, getting sips of beer and sweet wines like Mogen David and Cherry Kijafa, on special occasions.