I mean, because of the ops he had to have when he was little, and because of your dad’s drinking. She read somewhere that it’s all to do with genes. Used to go on about it a lot. She thought Ed would’ve inherited the drinking gene, and that his biology or whatever would’ve set him on the same path as your dad. ‘The apple never falls far from the tree,’ she used to tell me. She thought it was her job to keep him on the straight and narrow. Well, I just wanted to tell you that.
