1.   Another peeled a potato with the same knife with which her alcoholic husband had threatened her.

2.   She had unreliable help from her alcoholic first husband, Jim Little, whom she loved dearly but who proved an unfit spouse.

3.   She said she performed ritual magic on her alcoholic husband, Dakota, to help him stay sober.

4.   She survived a first marriage to an alcoholic husband which ended in divorce.

5.   She supported herself as a writer through the Depression and two world wars while nursing an autistic son, an alcoholic husband and her own parade of illnesses.

6.   She writes of an alcoholic husband who beat her, spent her money and was repeatedly unfaithful.