Then I looked at my brother and knew the doctor was wrong. In reality my eldest brother, 17 years my senior, had not really been with us in many years. There was a time, many years before, when my brother pushed me about in my buggy, played at being Dad. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober Read moreI lived just around the corner. Because although there might have been no hope to save him that day, he never stopped hoping that we could.

Source: The Guardian August 26, 2017 05:37 UTC