22 4 / 2012
"And when our father used to get us up in the middle of the night and march around singing “Onward Christian Soldiers,” it would be a school night and we would think that we should be able to sleep like normal kids. And we’d say, “Mom, please help us, come to our rescue,” and she never did."
Excerpted from Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics by Robert J. Ackerman
