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Those first few years,
I never knew a better life.
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A wife who was everything
I'd been looking for.
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A son who was smart, healthy.
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Then our son died.
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I came home from the theatre
one night a couple of months later.
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This kid, I don't think she ever
had a real drink in her life before.
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There she is, stretched out
across the bed, dead drunk,
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her wrists cut and bleeding.
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She was jealous that I had my work,
something to live for.
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She felt she had nothing.
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Inside of a year,
she was a hopeless drunkard.
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In an effort to give her
some purpose in life,
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I made her feel that
I needed her in my work.
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I let her pick the songs I should
record, the shows I ought to do.
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She started taking over everything.
She became very possessive.
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She wanted to make the decisions,
had to be with me all the time.
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Whenever I was away, she acted
as if I'd run off with another woman.
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She had fits of depression.
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One time she set fire
to a hotel suite.
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That's when I hit the bottle.
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- Does she still drink?
- No. She stopped when I began.
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That figures. You were the weak one
now. That's what she wanted.