Like the Allman Brothers once wrote:
"My father was a gambler down in Georgia,
And he wound up on the wrong end of a gun.
So I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus,
Rollin' down Highway Forty-One."
In truth, a native midwesterner of Slovenian ancestry. If you're not familiar with Slovenia, it was the northwestern-most province of the former Jugoslavia, sandwiched between northern Italy, Austria, Croatia, and Hungary. It's a fascinating cultural mix of Roman, Bavarian, and Eastern European. For instance, a meal might consist of a spaghetti dinner, and drinks might be beer before dinner, wine with dinner, and slivovitz (a plum brandy not far from vodka) after dinner.
Like many nations in that part of the world, alcoholism is not exactly rare.
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