Alcoholism In Eddie's Listening By J. R.

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In the book, listening is an act of love the content in the book journeys has different people interviewing their mate, friend or someone at their job. Eddie S. Lanier Jr. was getting interviewed by his friend David Wright in the book Eddie states that both sides of his mom and dad family were influenced by chronic alcoholic which is a person who suffers from alcohol. Eddie Jr. father was alcoholic, but he stops drinking and told him that he come from an extensive line of family members who suffers from chronic alcoholism and they all died because of it. He told him if you drink it for a while your body will get immune to it. Instead of listening to his dad at the age of fourteen he went to a Halloween party and …show more content…
Martha was alive and not injured but there were 296 on board and 111 perished. She realized that God had her here for a purpose so she built a better relationship with the people she loved. Another one I read was about Curtis Cates getting interviewed by his wife Cindy Curtis. His dad was a truck driver so he and his dad would travel with each other for about four-five days without stopping.When he come home his parents would argue because he was cheating when he be on the road.Every time they would argue Curtis and his dad would get in his truck.He thought that he and his father had a relationship with each other because they would dress alike and talk about everything but Curtis began to feel isolated from the world because of his parent's relationship towards each other. The one I like the most is Eddie Jr because his story is real because there is a lot of people who is suffering from alcoholism because they don’t know what to do with their problems so they drink. I could relate to him in some way because my auntie and uncles are alcoholics to this day.I hope they would stop drinking, so they want to die from being intoxicated from

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