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Drinking: A Love Story - A Review - College Paper

Drinking: A Love Story - A Review



In Caroline Knapp’s autobiography entitled, Drinking: A Love Story, you learn from her own personal tewenty year battle with alcoholism, why people drink, why people become alcohlics, and how hard it is to break the cycle of alcoholism.
Caroline had her first drink at age fourteen, she was a very shy child who felt uncomfortable in most social situations, even those consisting of just family members. She never felt sheltered and protected by her parents who showed her no physical affection and never said ‘I love you’ to eachother or to the children. Caroline refered to one evening wher she was being questioned by her aunt at a family party, and all she desperatly wanted was to climb ...

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She drank to ease the tention before meeting friends, continued to drink once they got there to keep the mood light and conversation interesting, was always up for one more round, and was always the last to leave. If she was physically able she would drink alone when she got home, until she hit the point of passing out. More times than not she wouldn’t remember the end of the time spent at the bar or even the drive home, much less what she drank when she returned home. She would wake up in fog not knowing what had happened over the last few hours of the night. Sometimes she wouldn’t wake up alone and panicked before turing over to see who was lying next to her, not having a clue about whom she had left with, or what had happened the night before. She could assume what she had drank by the empty bottles laying around her apartment, and many times she had to search street by street, block by block to find her car.
Caroline describes waking up not knowing where she was and ...

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see on the street with a brown paper bag, who has no job and no life, who can’t keep promises and has no responsibilities... not her, she did what she had to do, and more. She was successful!
Caroline’s father was a very well known Professor of Psychriatry at Boston University. She had a lot of respect for her father and longed to be close to him. She described her parents relationship as being distant and cold, eventhough there were no fights or cold words. The tension was so thick in their house, like a smothering black fog was setteled over. The only time this fog was lifted was after dinner when her mother would bring out the pitcher of martinis for her father. After he had ...

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Added: 3/10/2004 07:24:49 AM
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