One thing that always strikes me about family photos is how much booze there is always in them, like in the background. I have one picture of me playing with a barbie doll in the foreground and my parents are at the kitchen table, and there's the gallon jug of wine at my dad's feet. Or another candid shot of my father waving his arms around arguing - he did that a lot & the table is absolutely covered with bottles of booze. It's just like it was always there, and I never noticed it growing up - I just thought it was normal.

Guess there's a reason lots of my cousins and I are now in recovery.

--splitimage