I wonder if it is the booze.My much younger brother went down the wrong road too.He was always a bit cocky.When he was in about grade 5 or 6 the local school had split grades do to low enrollments.My brother was high academiclly but about the youngest kid in the class.He was put in with the older kids and seem to falter a bit.Our parents went along with the schools placement then blamed themselves when he seemed to stumble at school.
It got bad enough when he went to high school that a family friend remarked that our father,who had a bad stutter, didn't stutter when Dannys situation cam up in conversation.He ran with older guys and we think he carried thier drugs for them because the penalties in Canada are negligible for under 16 year olds.His friends seem to desert him when he turned 16.
My wife got him a job fixing lawn mowers when he dropped out of school the last time.All the while our parents coddled him and to this day he gets care packages from Mom.He shacked up with a hooker for a while and the crack made him lose everything.
Our mother took him in again and baled him out of jail and paid his lawyer.He made the best of the free ride until the money was all gone.I had to get downright ugly to get him to cut the lawns while I ran the farm and worked full time and cut firewood for our Mother where he was living.The farm is gone except for the buildings which the nieghbour who bought the land didn't want (I rent from our Mother) and our mother is living in a trailer park.
Funny thing is that he found another woman and they both went to rehab.She gave him a daughter the day before his 40th birthday.They recently split so she could go back to her partying ways but that little girl may keep him straight.
The moral of the story?I don't know.Blood is thicker than water? People change even if it takes a long time?I do know that our mother keeping on feeling that she had to make up for him getting put in the wrong class didn't help.You had the courage to bring the facts of life to him.Reality may set in but it could take some time.
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