His mother drank herself to death after his father left her.
"Little mother," he said in English, "try and drink some of this, it will do you good."
A. Remember how your mother made you drink milk every day because the calcium helped build strong bones?
Was it possible that her mother had been drinking this early in the day?
Her mother had been drinking vodka with lemonade since late afternoon.
Maybe they would start to be a regular occurrence now that her father and mother were truly drinking themselves to death.
His mother always drank diet soda while she watched the afternoon shows.
Her mother was drinking near beer and asking for cigarette money.
See all those mothers drinking coffee and watching over toddlers at play?
Patrick didn't need to be a doctor to know that his mother was drinking herself into an early grave.