11.   Growing up as a rich kid in Sioux Falls, S.D., with a reserved father and an alcoholic mother, he soon came to hate himself.

12.   Growing up taking care of her alcoholic mother meant blocking out her emotions, she said.

13.   He recalled that he discovered Verne shortly after his twice-divorced alcoholic mother married a cousin who was also an alcoholic.

14.   Her Achilles heel is her alcoholic mother, who is never seen but whose presence is always felt.

15.   In between those adventures, Jody has to deal with an alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, while Beth faces an adult world that refuses to believe her.

16.   Jody is a forest sprite, an adventurous loner and the daughter of an alcoholic mother with an abusive boyfriend.

17.   She had beaten her alcoholic mother to death in South Carolina.

18.   She was born Norma Leah Nelson to an alcoholic mother and a father who worked as a television repairman.

19.   She is, he comes to learn, the daughter of a long-absent father and a hopelessly alcoholic mother.

20.   The son of an alcoholic mother who committed suicide.