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This quote shows how terrifying life was for Jeanette and her family when Rex was drunk. Their only option was to avoid him and try to stay quiet and keep to themselves.

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This quote shows how backwards life gets when it is is tainted by addiction. Instead of helping his family survive, Rex instead hinders them. He makes them live in fear of his outbursts, and costs them money because of those same outbursts.

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Shown above is Rex Walls

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“When dad went crazy, we all had our own ways of shutting down and closing off,” (Walls 114).

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“He came home in such a drunken fury that mom usually hid while we kids tried to calm him down. He broke windows and smashed dishes and furniture until he’d spent all his anger.” (Walls 112)

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According to the Department of Health and Human Resources’ Surgeon General Report, alcohol addiction can lead to an increase in violent tendencies and outbursts of anger.

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Addiction can tear families apart. Rex Walls was supposed to bring home money and food to support his family. Addiction tore a hole through that idea. Rex instead gambled and drank himself into a stupor. He disappeared for days at a time, leaving his family with no clue of where he was. When he did return, he was almost always in a drunken stupor, and destroyed everything around him.

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“Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health.” NCBI, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Resources, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK424860/#ch1.s6.