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Dear Care and Feeding,

My wife “Amy” and I have two kids, “Mariah,” 5, and “Josh,” 8. We went over to my parents’ for Thanksgiving. They have a big house and hosted all of our extended family with a catered dinner complete with bar service. That ended up being a problem.

Amy got so drunk that I had to carry her upstairs to one of the guest bedrooms and kee an eye on her. Luckily my sister was able to watch our kids while I was gone. Amy had such a bad hangover the next morning that we ended up having to go home the next day. I took the kids to the movies and told them that mom wasn’t feeling well. Mariah bought it, but Josh saw his mom stumbling around and slurring her w

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