WHOSE FAULT IS IT?

[sally]

I am a functioning addict.

I used to know someone like that. She once told me she started drinking in the mornings just to feel "normal" so she could go about the business of her day, that her first drinks of the day weren't even to get drunk but to feel capable. I thought that was so sad.

My dad was like that too. Like most people have a couple cups of coffee before work he'd have a couple glasses of gin.