If Harry had a brain before his mother’s death, he threw it away to escape reality. My father lost his mother to cancer when he was 14. That left my grandfather with 7 children in 1945, 5 of them younger than my father. I guess it’s a good thing to live in survival mode (my father had started working when he was 11). There was no coddling, if you didn’t get home for a meal, no one was saving anything for you, hence the reason to need to work to feed yourself. To get drunk or high would mean starving to death, and my father loved to eat.
God bless your father.
Harry’s lucky he wasn’t on the Mayflower. He could never have hacked it in the American wilderness.
He is a great disappointment, failing to “help” impressionable young people by ecouraging drug use. Needs a little time away somewhere.