Alcoholic Daze - Chapter 2

The continuation of the alcoholic saga which was first written in 2008 with some minor amendments..... He has not always been an alcoholic. We were married in 1976 and knew one another for 5 years before we married, so we were together in total for 39 years when he died in 2010 . We met as students studying German at university and we married in the very hot and humid summer of 1976. I should have known the omens were not boding well when we picked our honeymoon in Cornwall - the only two torrential rainy weeks of that summer. Some people joke that for a honeymoon it shouldn't matter what the weather is doing. Then, it didn't!! In retrospect, that was a sign I should have heeded! Until 4 years ago, the majority of our 39 years together had been fine. It had had its ups and downs, like I suspect most marriages, but we never doubted we would stay together forever. We had so much in common, both before we met and afterwards. Too much to lose if we drifted apart. It would be like losing a

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