Emily

“Because if you’re talking about one person’s ma or da and the troubles they carry around with them, you’re talking about all of them, including, in most cases, your own, and the only thing worse than seeing someone’s da standing round the corner from the off-licence trying to get someone to go in for him because he’s barred, or someone’s ma climbing into the back seat of a souped-up Supra at three o’clock in the afternoon only to reappear a few hours later, barely able to stand, is to acknowledge it for what it is and not as something you catch out of the corner of your eye every once in a while and pretend to ignore.”
― Michael Magee, Close to Home