Alice Lee

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When Alice's parents split up, she lived with her mom for a little while. This was really hard on her dad. Alice's dad was a mechanic, that's why he went to college in Tennessee, he worked for himself on the beautiful apple farm Alice lived on. The apple farm was run by Alice's grandfather or papa'. For lunch Alice's father went out to a local pub/restaurant, since Alice and her sister were at their moms and he was all alone, after lunch he would start drinking and drinking till it was way too late to call someone to pick him up and he was way too drunk to drive. Alice's father would walk to Alice's mother's apartment where Alice and her sister lived. For some strange reason the door would always be unlocked, and Alice's father would walk in. The sound of his heavy muddy work boots would alarm Alice, who was on the couch watching whatever her mom left on the tv at midnight while her sister and mother were asleep. Her father would walk over to the couch extremely drunk and sit with Alice on the couch till they both fell asleep. In the morning Alice's mother, extremely annoyed and angry, would yell at her father to get out of her apartment, and stop tracking dirt, while Alice and her sister were in the other room. After a few times of Alice's father getting drunk and stumbling into Alice's mother's apartment, he got help from Alice's grandmother, Meme'. After going to court, what seemed a thousand times, Alice's father got physical custody over Alice and her sister. Alice realized a couple years later that her Meme and Papa were so passionate about Alice's father getting custody because Alice's mother had serious problems with drug abuse.