[Magdalen] Heather Cook

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/4/2015 8:04:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jguthrie1 at comcast.net writes:


And  of course, there are millions of Americans who simply don’t drink at 
all for  
religious or other reasons. Mormons, many conservative evangelicals  
etc.have 
never touched the stuff, and aren’t likely to start.   Certainly my 
conservative 
religionist cousins fall into that category; and  when my folks were first 
married, Aunt Cornelia dumped the entire family  liquor cabinet down the 
sink, 
thus imposing her religious views on the  family.>>>>>>
 
There was the annual temperance pledge in such as the Methodist
Church of my youth.  By signing this you assured that you would
never drink.  The oddity is that we were expected to sign it  yearly.
Go figure.
 
In any case, it was recognized, but not much verbalized, that 
"firewater" (as my father sometimes called it) was not good for my
family, and the best course was total abstinence.  All this did  not
prevent two of his four children from becoming addicted.   Interestingly,
two of four brothers, my father's sibs (a dentist and a  physician), also
had the addiction and actually died of complications.
 
My children have been forewarned.  So far,so good.
 
 
David Strang - with 31 years away from firewater 27th December.